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The phones were ringing off the desks, the office was too hot, the stock market was doing its crazy gyrations with a predominant downward slope and my stomach just rang "empty." It was time to get out.

Searching for a theme for San Diego Opera's 2009 season provides some unlikely comparisons of opera plots. The usual unrequited love affairs leading to rash suicides, common to most operas, are there in four of the five operas in the repertory, opening with Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" on Jan. 24 at the Civic Theatre.