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Beastly, by Alex Flinn
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She went to an opera—three and a half hours.†
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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)
I finished the hunchback book (everyone died), so I read The Phantom of the Opera.†
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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.
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opera = (used for) classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
I wished I had an opera house.†
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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)
I read The Hunchback, Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein.†
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We're doing a unit on literary monsters in English class—Phantom of the Opera, Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Dracula.†
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What if I looked like the Phantom of the Opera or something?†
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God, I sounded like the Phantom of the Opera.†
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If she pitied me, she might think that I was some pathetic creature who was going to try to drag her off and force her to be mine, like the Phantom of the Opera.†
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Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:

So basically, she got a salary and free use of our apartment, and all she had to do was laundry and vacuuming and watch soap operas and fan her butt all day.†
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Definitions:

(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
(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.