* A swan is due to die, and of course before doing so it must perform its swan song. It's not cooperating, so Death tries singing himself and encouraging the swan to join in.
--> '''Death:''' [[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: 'Ha ha ha, Hee hee hee, Little Brown Jug -' ]]

* Every single dialogue between Salzella and Bucket on opera.
* The point when Agnes is showing off her singing abilities: The instructor sings. She sings it exactly the way he did... in tenor. He then asks her to sing it the way Christine would.
-->'''Agnes''': [[StylisticSuck Kwesta?! Mallydetta?!]]\\
'''Dr. Undershaft''': ... Astute observation.
* The entirety of Granny Weatherwax's turn as "Lady Esmeralda" - "She patronizes the opera?" "Lady Esmeralda [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage patronizes]] ''everything''." - culminating in Nanny Ogg's... [[LovePotion special]]... chocolate pudding for desert.
* The villain is stabbed in a sword fight (actually, the sword is under his arm, but everyone's so wrapped up in the madness of opera that he dies anyway). He staggers to centre stage, delivers a long death soliloquy and dies. Then he gets back up to decry the opera some more, and dies. Then he gets back up again, and again, and ''again'', reaches the five-exclamation-mark threshold of madness and declares:
-->"You know what ''really'' gets me down is the way everyone takes such a ''long''!!!!! time!!!!! ... to!!!!! ... argh ... argh ... argh ..." *dies*
* Nanny explains opera to Granny.
--> '''Nanny:''' Well, basically there are two sorts of operas. There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like 'Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh, I am dyin', oh, oh, oh, that's what I'm doin'', and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes 'Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!' although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely.
--> '''Granny:''' What? Is that it? Either dyin' or drinkin' beer?
--> '''Nanny:''' We-ell, there might be ''some'' other stuff, but generally it's stout or stabbin'.
* The opera ghost wrote 'An opera about cats? Whoever heard of such a thing?' and 'An opera about a bloke called Les who's really miserable'.
* Nanny Ogg on the coach:
-->Let’s see what else we’ve got... ah, has anybody got an opener for a bottle of beer?”
-->A man in the corner indicated that he might have such a thing.
-->“Fine,” said Nanny Ogg. “Anyone got something to drink a bottle of beer out of?”
-->Another man nodded hopefully.
-->“Good,” said Nanny Ogg. “Now, has anybody got a bottle of beer?”
* Nobby and Detritus as "undercover agents" ... correction, Count de Nobbes and Count de Tritus, patrons of the opera.
* 'Greebo could commit sexual harassment sitting quietly in the next room.'
* The names by which Granny Weatherwax is known among the races native to the Ramtops: The trolls call her "She Who Must Be Avoided" ... and the Dwarfs refer to her as "Go Around the Other Side of the Mountain."
* Granny's aggravation with how quickly people assume something must be magic. At the beginning of the book she astonishes a patient by calling his name before he knocks and opening the door from her chair, privately wishing the man would notice that her window has a view of the road but not vice versa and that a bit of string can easily open the door... she sensed him on the path long before he was near the house, mind, but that's not the point. And after ranting that she could have achieved her BarehandedBladeBlock by palming a bit of metal, but people just ''assume'', Nanny points out that she did use magic... which fails to mollify her. It's not the ''POINT!''
* Granny and Nanny turn Greebo into a human to escort them to the opera, just as they did in ''Literature/WitchesAbroad''. Except this time they've bought a tuxedo for him, so during the transformation they occasionally have to resize him so he'll fit his clothes.
* When Granny Weathwerwax asks Nanny Ogg if there is even a single recipe in her book that doesn't involve... goings on, Nanny eventually comes up with Maids of Honor. She then has to retract that as, while they ''start'' as maids of honor, they end up as tarts.
** What makes it extra funny: [[AluminumChristmasTrees there is actually]] a type of pastry called Maids of Honour. And yes, they are tarts.
* Death and Granny have a tense one-hand poker game over the fate of an infant, which Granny "wins." Then, once the tension is out of the air, she mentions she couldn't help but notice Death is favoring his arm a little. He admits he has a bit of repetitive stress and Granny helps pull his shoulder right with a pop.
** And when Death asks what she would have done if he hadn't "lost" (i.e. thrown the game), Granny admits she would have [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu broken his damn arm]].
** The start of the confrontation has Granny sitting alone, with a single candle, and telling Death she's not afraid because she has faith...
-->[[/folder]]

[[folder: Courage is easy by candlelight. Your faith, I suspect, is in the flame. ]]
\\
Death grinned.\\
Granny leaned forward, and blew out the candle. Then she folded her arms again and stared fiercely ahead of her.\\
After some length of time a voice said, [[/folder]]

[[folder: All right, you've made your point. ]]

* The opera house's ratcatcher is one of the first on-page victims of the Ghost, and due to a lifetime of being around rats has taken some rat-like tendencies... to the extent he gets a visit from the Grim Squeaker, who informs him he's due for reincarnation (three guesses as what). Because while he may not believe in reincarnation, it believes in ''him''.
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