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Opera may be the most misunderstood art-form in the world. Ridiculed and parodied by people who don't know much about it, this centuries-old blend of great music, passionate acting, and pure spectacle can be a sheer delight -- if we're willing to give it a try!

Opera is larger than life: more colorful, more emotional, more intense. With the first stirring notes of the overture, we are swept up in a kind of magic. Who can ever forget the brilliant hilarity of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, with its outrageous comic mix-ups and crazy characters, or the poignancy of Puccini's La Boheme, in which the doomed flower-seller Mimi and the painter Rudolfo meet in a shabby apartment one snowy night and fall desperately, tragically in love? What can compare with the grandeur of Aida, the violence of Carmen, the glamour of La Traviata, the charm of Die Fledermaus, the power and magnificence of Tannhauser?

But a great opera is much more than an interesting story. Part of the thrill of the total experience comes from hearing a fine singer perform one of those world-famous arias. If you've never heard an audience gasp when a great tenor delivers that extraordinary climax in "Nessum Dorma," or gotten shivers listening to the almost incredible vocal pyrotechnics of a splendid coloratura soprano doing "Ah! Tardi tropo!" -- you don't know what you've been missing!

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