And it's not often that you can surprise the longtime operagoer, at least in a good way.
From the stltoday.com
As ever, advance exposure to the music can enliven the experience for even a practiced operagoer.
From the sfgate.com
What the San Francisco Opera cannot be in 11 or 12 offerings a year is everything to every operagoer.
From the sfgate.com
The best-known incident was the suicide of operagoer Bantcho Bantchevsky on January 23, 1988 during an intermission of Verdi's Macbeth.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Reversing another current fashion, London puts light rather than gloom on everything, and the operagoer does not have to view the whole show through a front scrim.