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What is the origin of "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings" quote?

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"Dan Cook, sports broadcaster and writer for the San Antonio (Texas) Express-News, on television newscast in April 1978, after the first basketball playoff game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Washington Bullets, to illustrate that while the Spurs had won once, the series was not over yet."

 

SOURCE: Respectfully Quoted   p. 341

UPDATED: 4/8/2006