1.   But Ms. Musgrave is also too talented a dramatist to let this be simply another operatic life of a political saint.

2.   But the story of the black ascent in American concert and operatic life began well before the Lincoln Memorial concert.

3.   Here technology makes operatic life stink, says Sellars, and we had all better watch out.

4.   The end of the operatic life is its vindication.

5.   The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima lived an operatic life.