After all, many of the formally dressed, champagne-sipping opera patrons milling around him were his kind of people.

City Opera, with generally lower prices, younger performers and more innovative programs, tends to attract younger and first-time opera patrons.

Act I On a rainy night in Edwardian London, the opera patrons are waiting under the arches of Covent Garden for cabs.

In 1963 the Cromwell family sold the house at 711 Park to Robert Tobin, a Texas art collector, opera patron and philanthropist.

Krainik endeared herself to Chicago's opera patrons, who had been disappointed by one too many of Pavarotti's last-minute cancellations.

Out here, the hometown rooters are as polite as opera patrons.

Edith Rockefeller McCormick (August 31, 1872 - August 25, 1932) was an American socialite and opera patron.

That's where desperate opera patrons compete for last-minute returns or a chance to bargain with speculators.

Dieyi drifts into a liaison with a rich, older opera patron.

The composer is knifed in the alley, the lead soprano is poisoned, a prominent opera patron is murdered, and - oh, yes, the theater is torched.