1.   A. The repertory at the Met certainly includes operas with lots of supernumeraries.

2.   But she admitted that, growing up in Berlin, she was weaned on opera, including Italian opera, sung in German.

3.   For most of his mature career, he recorded for RCA Victor, including many operas still available.

4.   From the beginning, it fostered new and recent work, including operas by Stravinsky, Hindemith and Henze.

5.   Interest in all forms of Chinese opera has eroded in the last decade under a wave of American pop culture and Western arts, including opera.

6.   Other notable Harnoncourt projects include operas by Monteverdi and Mozart, and he has already gone beyond Schubert and Schumann into Bruckner and Berg.

7.   Sacred subjects held a perennial appeal for Martin, whose works include an opera on the Nativity and an oratorio on the Passion.