1.   It confirmed that opera lovers were most likely to spread their favours across the art forms.

2.   Also known to opera lovers are its heavenly fugal quartet and the soprano and tenor arias that smoke with passion.

3.   An opera lover and wine connoisseur who relaxed by smoking one of his many hand-carved pipes.

4.   At the same time, opera lovers who cannot make it here are increasingly able to catch its shows elsewhere.

5.   For New York opera lovers, the switch should have little immediate impact, music experts said.

6.   For thoughtful opera lovers, attendance is almost obligatory.

7.   Hundreds of thousands of ballplayers, dogs, sunbathers, opera lovers and Frisbee tossers have taken their toll.

8.   In short, many opera lovers are not music lovers at all.

9.   Madame Butterfly should please opera lovers since opera is rarely put to film.

10.   Of course every opera lover knows that Gluck was one of the first great opera composers.