Opera

"I've heard that people commit murders at the operas and no one notices because everyone on stage is bellowing at the top of his lungs."

- Olive Ruskettle

Opera Across the Realms
"Attending the opera would be interesting in Menzoberranzan. During the overture, the audience could place bets on whether more drow will die onstage or off."

- Liriel Baenre

Notable Operas
"Opera is the sound of nightingales sighing in sympathy over the tomb of a maiden whose ghost weeps of its broken heart, lamenting true love lost and wasted-except when it sounds more like cats on a still summer night, yowling in heat right outside one's window."

- Storm Silverhand


 * Cassana's Lament, an opera popular in Ravens Bluff, Cormyr, Sembia, and the Dalelands that dramatized the lives of Cassana the Cruel and her lover Zrie Prakis. It told the story of Cassana's kidnapping by pirates, separating her from Zrie. The wizards stayed apart for a long time. They grew narcissistic, vein, and powerful. Eventually, when the lovers met again, all they did was argue over who was more powerful. They dueled. In the opera, Cassana felt remorseful over her first love's death in the duel and encased his bones in a glass sarcophagus to keep by her bed until the rest of her life.
 * ''The Fall of Myth Drannor, a long-winded and exhausting opera in several parts with a grand finale. The opera was depicted the events of the Weeping War and the destruction of the City of Song Myth Drannor, written and popularized sometime before 1368 DR.

History
In 1368 DR, Ayryn Farlight held a scrying session for select members of the Society of Sensation of Sigil, using her sorcerous gift to observe various deities of Toril. When she attempted to scry Tymora, her magic sight was redirected by the goddess to Milil, the god-Lord of Songs, who was delighted to have an audience. The deity used magic to affix the scrying and performed a plethora of songs. Eventually, the Sensates started getting bored of the performance, to what Milil responded by starting to sing an opera - the Fall of Myth Drannor. The long and torturous performance was a punishment for trying to spy on a god.