101.   Two projects on the horizon offer hope that American opera companies are ready to put more trust in strong composers.

102.   Volpe and Kneuss are named as defendants, along with the opera company itself.

103.   We have the wealthy, opulent Metropolitan Opera and a host of healthy regional opera companies.

104.   We may have fewer critics today, but we have more orchestras, opera companies and festivals.

105.   What was a poor opera company to do?

106.   Which are not at all what the opera company has in mind.

107.   With the thought of such a catastrophe as his creative muse, he threw himself into the temporary reinvention of the venerable opera company.

108.   Without daring, no opera company can ever grow.

109.   Opera company decides against performing Wagner.

110.   As the holidays approach, stages of opera companies that usually are filled with villains are taken over by fluffier fare, primarily operetta.