1.   And though the musical details are sometimes bland, she has an instinct for building long arcs of operatic drama.

2.   Operatic drama was becoming, like music at the time, fluid and associative.

3.   Their classical style, evidenced in recent years by the operatic drama of their long program, will feature technically strong skating at the opening instead of intricate choreography.

4.   Yet their gifts may be comparable, and their lives are the stuff of high operatic drama.

5.   But La Divina built a lifestyle that matched operatic high drama.