id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 32980 Howard, Kathleen Confessions of an Opera Singer .txt text/plain 59275 3200 78 evening I went to the opera and wondered at the great stairway and at The only time I ever saw him upset was one day after the Opera class. "We spent a long time in the life-class room--nude, (not us but the there was a great deal of stage setting for very little play. opened my eyes to the new order of singing actors, and the old method many "trial performances" at the opera house as the contract calls for, I sang my first part in a small provincial German opera house, at foreigner speaking no German, and a woman looking for rooms all by the opera, I think they were glad to use my good stage appearance, and opera, and I had to speak German for the first time before an audience come winging to you the next time you step out on the stage to sing the ./cache/32980.txt ./txt/32980.txt