(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
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
- She is a popular opera singer.
opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
- We're going to the opera this evening.
- ...someone was singing. It was opera.Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
- They ... used to be always seen together at the Opera, and wherever good music was going on.Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- I hear she went to the Opera on Monday night,Oscar Wilde -- An Ideal Husband
- He was a murderer who terrorized the opera house for years before kidnapping a young singer and trying to force her to be the love he was denied.Alex Flinn -- Beastly
- No expense had been spared on the setting, which was acknowledged to be very beautiful even by people who shared his acquaintance with the Opera houses of Paris and Vienna.Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- Or I'll take you to the opera.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- In order for you to understand what I did and why, I must introduce you to my favorite opera: Madame Butterfly.David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
- She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an opera.Sandra Cisneros -- The House on Mango Street
- That sweet little Donna Correlli was booed off the stage when she tried to sing opera.Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger
- If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera.J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
- We listen to the opera singer in a peaceful silence.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- Until the opera singer begins her evening routine.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- Song begins to do opera moves, as he did the night they met.David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
- (Chinese opera music comes up on the speakers.David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
- They "beat" her, then lampoon the acrobatics of the Chinese opera, as she is made to kneel onstage.David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
- No opera singer, but it's only the afternoon.Stephanie Perkins -- Anna and the French Kiss
- Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?David Henry Hwang -- M. Butterfly
- The opera music was very loud now Flora looked down at the hand that was on her arm.Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = a song from a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = performances of classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = (used for) classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = (built for) classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most dialogue is sung
opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung