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A Wagner Matinee
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- I asked her whether she had ever heard any of the Wagnerian operas and found that she had not, though she was perfectly familiar with their respective situations, and had once possessed the piano score of The Flying Dutchman.†
*operas = classical music plays in which most of the dialogue is sung
- She had often told me of Mozart's operas and Meyerbeer's, and I could remember hearing her sing, years ago, certain melodies of Verdi's.†
Definitions:
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(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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(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.