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During a run of eighteen successive nights, all the other theatres were drained of their spectators, and the opera-houses cursed my Moro di Corpo Bianco.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

Leila is readily accepted all over the Continent; and even in Italy has been the mainstay of some twelve or fourteen opera-houses.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

It aroused opposition; but in the end Wagner got his way, and what was at first declared impossible, then difficult, is now done as a matter of course in all the serious opera-houses.

From Wagner by Runciman, John F.

Of course, each man's production will be more or less guided and limited by his capacity.—Thus, fat men will spin forth cathedrals, opera-houses and railway stations.

From Here are Ladies by Stephens, James

He opens the opera-houses before Easter, and makes Parliament sit on a Wednesday evening.

From Phineas Finn The Irish Member by Trollope, Anthony