Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 134 | The lead View more quotes about role">role had been sung by a famous Italian soprano, a visiting artist. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 131 | But the coincidence was unsettling. |
| 2 | 132 | The resemblance was remarkable. |
| 2 | 133 | It had been a performance of Richard Strauss's Salomé, based on a short story by Oscar Wilde. |
| 2 | 134 | The lead role had been sung by a famous Italian soprano, a visiting artist. |
| 2 | 135 | The performance had been by the older, and most famous, of the two major opera companies in the city. |
| 2 | 136 | Both are fine companies, and either, in her view, would have been capable of mounting splendid productions of the work performed. |
| 2 | 137 | She wonders if the preceding few sentences will be excised from the manuscript, as perhaps too revealing, or if they, perhaps in their amusement, will permit them to remain, perhaps as an intriguing, almost insolent detail. |
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But the coincidence was unsettling.
The resemblance was remarkable.
It had been a performance of Richard Strauss's Salomé, based on a short story by Oscar Wilde.
The lead role had been sung by a famous Italian soprano, a visiting artist.
The performance had been by the older, and most famous, of the two major opera companies in the city.
Both are fine companies, and either, in her view, would have been capable of mounting splendid productions of the work performed.
She wonders if the preceding few sentences will be excised from the manuscript, as perhaps too revealing, or if they, perhaps in their amusement, will permit them to remain, perhaps as an intriguing, almost insolent detail.
- (Prize of Gor)