All 4 Uses of
opera
in
Main Street
- Raymond Wutherspoon says if he had my energy he'd be a grand opera singer.†
Chpt 8 *
- He'll put a grand-opera record on the phonograph and sit and listen to it and close his eyes——Or you take Lym Cass.†
Chpt 14
- Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and guitars disguised as wash-boards.†
Chpt 19
- a thick, black-bearded, cynical Frenchman who would sit about and drink and sing opera and tell bawdy stories and laugh at our proprieties and quote Rabelais and not be ashamed to kiss my hand!†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(opera) a musical play with orchestra in which most dialogue is sung -- (typically associated with classical music and often in a language foreign to the audience)
or:
the art form (or describing something as related to it) that consists of musical plays with orchestra in which most dialogue is sung