Then, too, the story is bound to confound those expecting a traditional opera plot.

It sounds like something out of an opera plot.

His big break was worthy of an opera plot.

The introductory articles on some of the car makers and their companies read like summaries of good opera plots.

An opera plot must be, in both senses of the word, a melodrama.

It is all too easy to make fun of opera plots.

What ending to an opera plot would you like to rewrite?

But then there is the story, described by one colleague of mine as the Cape Hatteras of opera plots.

What's more, she did not always choose the simplest opera plots.

As a result, my Paraphrase is a ten-minute composition for eight wind players which follows the outline of the opera plot.