Free cash flow is often defined as net operating cash flow minus capital expenditures, which, as mentioned previously, are considered obligatory. A steady, consistent generation of free cash flow is a highly favorable investment quality â so make sure to look for a company that shows steady and growing free cash flow numbers. For the sake of conservatism, you can go one step further by expanding what is included in the free cash flow number.
Opera is a very serious art form. Unless, of course, it's not. The opposite of the opera seria is the opera buffa, a comedic opera that was popular in the 18th century.
List of important operas. The operas listed cover all important genres, and include all operas regularly performed today, from seventeenth-century works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, and Purcell to late twentieth-century operas by Messiaen, Berio, Glass, Adams, Birtwistle, and Weir.