1.   A corpulent, elegantly dressed opera singer came out and sang, and we knew it was over.

2.   The singer came back for one more curtain call.

3.   Every year, singers come up with new ways to say the exact same thing.

4.   From the United States came singers like Bonnie Raitt, Jimmy Buffett, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Joan Osborne, Lisa Loeb, Burt Bacharach and more.

5.   Have classical singers finally come to realize that florid ornamentation is not always appropriate?

6.   Most singers come to New York, at a more youthful age, hoping to get famous.

7.   Non-Italians are not so prone to fall into this Italianate lyrical habit, which is why so many superb Mozart singers have come from Germany, Britain and America.

8.   Of course, women singers have come along before, but perhaps never in such numbers.

9.   Other singers came and went in the many City Opera revivals at the City Center and the New York State Theater.

10.   Quartet member Johnson said his fellow Toby Twining Music singers come from a wide variety of musical backgrounds.