Italian Opera Aficionado Pillows

Scarpia's Palace

Screenwriters pitch movie to studio boss: 'It's a reinterpretation of Bicycle Thieves, that classic of Italian neo-realism. We're calling it, Dude, Where's My Chopper?'

Demure lady with gloves

Tut and Carmen.

Papageno from The Magic Flute

Pirate

"I was sent down to the minors and from there to Europe, and one thing just led to another."

Daughters on the beach

Owing to a clerical error, Luciano Pavarotti receives kudus instead of kudos for his performance as the Duke of Mantua.

Red Letter Days - A declaration of love in public

Modern Major General

Reginald Bunthorne

Wotan with eye patch

Mikado

Silly wig.

Falstaff

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

Cafe Momus from La Boheme

Little Buttercup HMS Pinafore

Senta jumps into the sea

Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Pinafore

'She sounds like your mother when you told her that you were going to marry me.'

Mikado

Scarpia from Tosca

Mendelssohn Finds His Inspiration

Italia tours

Drummer

"The Leonardos, the Raphaels, Titians, Veroneses, Giottos... Italy wants them back, all 427 of them."

A man taking a bow

Johannes Sebastian Bach

"Oh, this? Crazy story..."

Frederic Chopin

'I've got two tickets to Handel's Messiah -- What time do you get off work?'

Brünnhilde's Funeral Pyre

Tristan Und Isolde