Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse.
No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here!

Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

A lot of this depends on us getting the land and the funding from the Legislature, ... We're talking with some developers about various sites.