A. The statues in white Carrara marble are of some of the composer's most popular operatic characters.

Mr. Sellars evidently has set out to persuade his public that these operatic characters are real, believably trashy people.

Now 35, she has also proven a natural actress with an ability to find nuances in the sometimes sketchy operatic characters she portrays.

In the first scene between Pinkerton and his wife Adelaide, the underscoring is of the popular song Poor Butterfly which is a parody based on the operatic character.

Elizabeth Futral made Stella a satisfying operatic character.

Not to mention that operatic characters act so melodramatically, which is such a far cry from our modern world, wherein we are all so levelheaded.

He is unfazed that his two Broadway roles have been based on operatic characters.

Schoenberg is the man of ideas; he looks for operatic characters able to portray them.

In another he describes Mozart as having "a liberated personality" redolent of the "equivocal identity not a few of his operatic characters would insinuate."

One blows up operatic characters as one does a photograph: the indistinctness gathers with each enlargement.