1.   Aribert Reinman, who wrote an opera, Lear, for me, is a special case.

2.   Slater and Britten were writing an opera, and had to have more plot than Crabbe affords.

3.   The Mad Hatter explains how the opera was specially written for the choir.

4.   And the text about time is a single sentence from a novel by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, with whom Ms. Saariaho is writing an opera.

5.   Another has led composers to write new operas in a contemporary musical idiom.

6.   A slow worker, Druckman found the task of writing the opera more daunting than he had imagined.

7.   For Stravinsky has written an opera proud to be artificial.

8.   Has any great opera ever been written without the composer choosing his own text?

9.   He longed to write operas devoid of arias and set pieces, operas that were one continuous span of musical drama.

10.   Indeed, Previn has written an opera that sits nicely in the ear.