And then maybe because I'm reading them, and someone doing this in conversation might express it more musically than I perceive in text.

I'm feeling like no? Maybe because they're replicating constructed instruments instead of vocal singing, and someone referencing opera would send me the other way because of how I associate the genre and instruments.

She might have been! But what the article doesn't mention is that Kangaroo Island has some fairly significant conservation projects going, and Valerie is an excellent size to interfere. www.australianwildlife.org/sanctuaries/...