91.   One Korean city, Kwangju, found itself paying for platoons of idle Chinese interpreters and for Chinese opera singers playing to empty chairs.

92.   One opera singer who during his long career embodied the best qualities of the great musical theater artists was the Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi.

93.   Opera singers and other musicians, please take heed.

94.   Opera singers approach it awkwardly, or, at least, most did here.

95.   Opera singers, they are told, are fat.

96.   Opera singer Jessye Norman sat among the audience Thursday and, afterwards, backstage, she was ecstatic.

97.   Opera singer Paul Gudas, a Seattle character tenor, recalls an Italian singer who sat in the wings before every performance soaking his feet in warm water.

98.   Opera singers have to learn more than one style.

99.   Other opera singers in the cast were tenors Stanford Olsen and John Aler, soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, and bass Paul Plishka .

100.   Opera singer and two-time Grammy Award winner Dawn Upshaw entertained, and opera mega-star Placido Domingo was a guest.