All 5 Uses of
opera
in
Bleak House
- Yet every dim little star revolving about her, from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera, knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, haughtinesses, and caprices and lives upon as accurate a calculation and as nice a measure of her moral nature as her dressmaker takes of her physical proportions.†
Chpt 1-3
- Mr. Skimpole could play on the piano and the violoncello, and he was a composer—had composed half an opera once, but got tired of it—and played what he composed with taste.†
Chpt 4-6
- Concert, assembly, opera, theatre, drive, nothing is new to my Lady under the worn-out heavens.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- There are no caricatures, now, of effeminate exquisites so arrayed, swooning in opera boxes with excess of delight and being revived by other dainty creatures poking long-necked scent-bottles at their noses.†
Chpt 10-12
- I shall take my little meal, I think, at the French house, in the Opera Colonnade.†
Chpt 13-15
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