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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)
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the art form (or describing something as related to it) that consists of musical plays with orchestra in which most dialogue is sung
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the art form (or describing something as related to it) that consists of musical plays with orchestra in which most dialogue is sung
- They have left their opera-glasses at home.Chapters 34-36 — The Cabin-Table; The Mast-Head; The Qarter-Deck—Ahab and all (59% in)
- But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly;—not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon.Chapters 94-96 — A Squeeze of the Hand; The Cassock; The Try-Works (95% in)
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