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The Woman Warrior
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- Opera singers, who begin their training at age five, sleep in beds like this.†
Chpt 2 *opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
- Here we'll put on operas; we'll sing together and talk-story.†
Chpt 2operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
- Moon Orchid did indeed see a boy whose head was big, his curls enlarging it, his eyebrows thick and slanted like an opera warrior's.†
Chpt 4opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
- I spread them out (so black and full of possibilities) and pretended the curtains were swinging open, flying up, one after another, sunlight underneath, mighty operas.†
Chpt 5operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
- They turn the radio up full blast to hear the operas, which do not seem to hurt their ears.†
Chpt 5
- An opera from San Francisco!†
Chpt 5opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
- An opera from Hong Kong!†
Chpt 5
- Usually I did not understand the words in operas, whether because of our obscure dialect or theirs I didn't know, but I heard one line sung out into the night air in a woman's voice high and clear as ice.†
Chpt 5operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
- But they kept pouring out anyway in the voice like Chinese opera.†
Chpt 5opera = a musical play with orchestra in which most of the dialogue is sung (or the art form that consists of such musicals; or describing something as related to that art form)
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- I had a rented hospital bed in the living room, where I watched soap operas on t.v., and my family cranked me up and down.†
Chpt 5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(opera) a form of musical theater with orchestra in which most of the words are sung, often in a classical style and sometimes in a foreign language
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(2)
(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.