"Mr. Coggins is an expert on opera, George, no kidding. Did you know that? Look, it says so here."
"That we should be floating somebody here to lecture the Italians on opera," George Hartwell complained. "Any six waiters in any one of a hundred trattorie in Rome can go right into the sextet from Lucia for fifty lire each. Italian women scream arias during childbirth. What can we tell any Italian about opera?"
From Elizabeth Spencer, Knights and Dragons.