All 21 Uses of

opera
in
Anna Karenina

"Excuse me," he added, taking an opera glass out of her hand, and proceeding to scrutinize, over her bare shoulder, the row of boxes facing them.†
Part 2

But the position of a man pursuing a married woman, and, regardless of everything, staking his life on drawing her into adultery, has something fine and grand about it, and can never be ridiculous; and so it was with a proud and gay smile under his mustaches that he lowered the opera glass and looked at his cousin.†
Part 2

I know it's disgraceful, but I go to sleep at the opera, and I sit out the opera bouffe to the last minute, and enjoy it.†
Part 2

I know it's disgraceful, but I go to sleep at the opera, and I sit out the opera bouffe to the last minute, and enjoy it.†
Part 2

"And we should all go to see them if it were accepted as the correct thing, like the opera," chimed in Princess Myakaya.†
Part 2

Every eye, every opera glass, was turned on the brightly colored group of riders at the moment they were in line to start.†
Part 2

Anna said nothing, and keeping her opera glass up, gazed always at the same spot.†
Part 2

Without answering her husband, Anna lifted her opera glass and gazed towards the place where Vronsky had fallen; but it was so far off, and there was such a crowd of people about it, that she could make out nothing.†
Part 2

She laid down the opera glass, and would have moved away, but at that moment an officer galloped up and made some announcement to the Tsar.†
Part 2

Vronsky saw him without looking round get into the carriage, pick up the rug and the opera-glass at the window and disappear.†
Part 4

Alexey Alexandrovitch, after meeting Vronsky on his own steps, drove, as he had intended, to the Italian opera.†
Part 4

When they got up from dinner and Tushkevitch had gone to get a box at the opera, Yashvin went to smoke, and Vronsky went down with him to his own rooms.†
Part 5

"Yes, it was like going back home when I put on a black coat," answered Vronsky, smiling and slowly taking out his opera glass.†
Part 5

Vronsky, listening with one ear, moved his opera glass from the stalls and scanned the boxes.†
Part 5

Near a lady in a turban and a bald old man, who seemed to wave angrily in the moving opera glass, Vronsky suddenly caught sight of Anna's head, proud, strikingly beautiful, and smiling in the frame of lace.†
Part 5

When Vronsky turned the opera glass again in that direction, he noticed that Princess Varvara was particularly red, and kept laughing unnaturally and looking round at the next box.†
Part 5

Definitions:

(1) (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
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Less commonly, the expression, soap opera, refers to a television or radio program that typically runs for many years and dramatizes the lives of a group of characters.