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** A situation similar to the Wagner example in the main description comes up in productions of Puccini's masterpiece ''Turandot''. The eponymous princess is supposedly so beautiful, men will risk beheading for her hand in marriage -- and yet, because you need "a silver trumpet instead of vocal chords" for the part, most of the sopranos cast in the role fall squarely in this category: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EI0qzcXMOA Monserrat Caballé][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7E1q8nVss Gwynneth Jones]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ4sAJi4304 Eva Marton]; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWle3od3BCc Birgit Nilsson]

* Such a woman is a [[One-Scene Wonder]] in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'', when she wins second place at the concert and won't get off the stage to keep soaking up applause.