Definition: 1. A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes. 2. Theater where opera is performed. 3. A dramatic work in which all or most of the words are sung to music; works of this type as an art form or entertainment.
Use 'opera' in a sentence:
1. The English appropriated opera after the French.
2. The opera lacks the polish of his later work.
3. His father was an actor in the Cantonese Opera Company.
4. I happen to be an aficionado of the opera, and I love art museums.
5. Strauss spent much of 1941 scoring his last opera, Capriccio.
6. I like all kinds of music from opera to reggae.
7. I didn't use to like opera but my husband has converted me.
8. He was orchestrating the second act of his opera.
9. Beijing Opera is not as popular as it was before.
10. No composer was considered worthy of the name until he had written an opera.
11. I love opera and last year I got tickets for Covent Garden.
12. Fine music, particularly opera, has become aspirational, like fine wine or foreign travel.
13. The British public's wariness of opera is an anomaly in Europe.
14. The English made a major adjustment to opera and exported what they had done to opera back to Italy.
15. If you have never been to an opera, you haven't lived.
16. He made Beijing Opera different from other theatrical art forms.
17. The word opera means work, actually it means works.
18. Josef Krips at the State Opera hired her in spite of the fact that she had never sung on stage.
19. This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation.
20. Opera houses are packed out wherever she sings.
21. Do we have to get the opera tickets in advance?
22. A small colour television was tuned to an afternoon soap opera.
23. Opera productions are horrifically expensive.
24. Beijing Opera is China's national opera and it is full of Chinese cultural traditions.
25. The opera is vintage Rossini.
26. John had recently begun a successful career conducting opera.
27. Hello, this is Renmin Opera House.
28. He was a man of catholic tastes, a lover of grand opera, history, and the fine arts.
29. The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red, and white.
30. An evening at the opera isn't everyone's cup of tea.
31. The story has all the elements of a soap opera.
32. The opera twins the themes of love and death.
33. Her career began as prima donna with the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company.
34. The following year she joined the Royal Opera House.
35. Children today are brought up on a diet of television cartoons and soap operas.
36. A shower of incendiaries struck the Opera House.
37. Dennis had recently begun a successful career conducting opera.
38. Mozart composed his last opera shortly before he died.
39. I quite like opera.
40. Which opera did Verdi write first?
41. The opera was the place to see and be seen.
42. Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people.
43. Young conductors earn their spurs in a small orchestra or opera house.
44. Most people are familiar with this figure from Wagner's opera.
45. She's one of the leading lights in the opera world.
46. He was also learned in classical music with a great love of opera.
47. He was a regular attender at the opera.
48. She pretends to be interested in opera, but it's only for show.
