1.   An opera neophyte when he arrived, he leaves with an incomparable understanding of operatic style and practice.

2.   It has an almost old-fashioned operatic style.

3.   One wistfully imagines the mature operatic style Purcell might have developed if he had lived longer.

4.   Some opera buffs will consider this approach as true to the Italian operatic style that values melodic continuity and vocal evenness.

5.   The familiar music can seem incongruous with what is perceived as operatic style.

6.   The feeling of datedness was also partly a matter of operatic style.

7.   The performance is punctuated by live synthesized music and one-liners sung in operatic style by a woman in a Viking hat.

8.   They have seen their indigenous ways of phrasing, articulation and sound neutralized and denatured by a globalized, one-size-fits-all operatic style.