11.   American Indian contributors include Rita and Priscilla Coolidge, opera singer Bonnie Jo Hunt, throat-singing duo Tudjaat and the Six Nations Women Singers.

12.   Among them is Shmuel Tatz, who offers physical therapy for opera singers and other musicians with aching backs or joints.

13.   An apple blossom necklace for Lily Pons, the opera singer, wrapped around the neck and opened in the front with diamond blossoms cascading on either side.

14.   Annie Blakemore, an unhappily married aspiring opera singer, becomes obsessed with a priest she encounters on a subway.

15.   As a visiting opera singer, the performance artist John Kelly seems a tad too exotic, though he also gives off an engagingly humble restraint.

16.   As former opera singers themselves, Smithgall and Ms. Printz are also devoted to giving young singers opportunities to perform in New York.

17.   As a young woman, she studied to be an opera singer.

18.   At first, he wanted to be an opera singer.

19.   Auguste Escoffier, THE celebrity chef at the turn of the century, came up with peach Melba to honor opera singer Nellie Melba.

20.   Bernstein had recruited trained opera singers like Robert Rounseville for his vocally demanding score.