1.   And if that is true, the impact on the revival of neglected French operatic repertory should be marked.

2.   At the moment, Graves is most celebrated for her French repertory, at least in opera.

3.   But it was in French repertory that he made his mark.

4.   Conversely, singers outside France latching on to the popular French repertory always inflected it in ways of their own.

5.   The most important reason may not be aesthetic globalization so much as the general neglect of the French repertory.

6.   Yet as practiced by its finest proponents, the French style was a supple and fascinating medium, and not only in French repertory.