All 27 Uses
opera
in
M. Butterfly
(Edited)
- Upstage Song, who appears as a beautiful woman in traditional Chinese garb, dances a traditional piece from the Peking Opera, surrounded by the percussive clatter of Chinese music.
p. 7.4opera = 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)
- Then, slowly, lights and sound cross-fade; the Chinese opera music dissolves into a Western opera, the "Love Duet" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
p. 7.5
- Then, slowly, lights and sound cross-fade; the Chinese opera music dissolves into a Western opera, the "Love Duet" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
p. 7.5
- In order for you to understand what I did and why, I must introduce you to my favorite opera: Madame Butterfly.
p. 10.1 *opera = a classical music play in which most of the dialogue is sung
- As Gallimard describes the opera, the tape segues in and out to sections he may be describing.
p. 10.2opera = 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)
- Gallimard, as Pinkerton, lip-syncs his lines from the opera.
p. 11.7
- Song, playing Butterfly, sings the lines from the opera in her own voice—which, though not classical, should be decent.
p. 17.3
- They say in opera the voice is everything.
p. 17.6
- That's probably why I'd never before enjoyed opera.
p. 17.6
- I'm no opera singer at all.
p. 17.9
- If you wish to see some real theatre, come to the Peking Opera sometime.
p. 19.1
- She's an singer in the Chinese opera.
p. 19.7
- They have an opera, too?
p. 19.8
- So, what's in their opera?
p. 20.3
- Chinese opera house and the streets of Beijing.
p. 20.4
- I asked around, but no one knew anything about the Chinese opera.
p. 20.5
- It has become the stage for the Chinese opera performance.
p. 20.8
- Are you really interested in the opera?
p. 25.1
- I returned to the opera that next week, and the week after that …. she keeps our meetings so short—perhaps fifteen, twenty minutes at most.
p. 25.3
- I stopped going to the opera, I didn't phone or write her.
p. 28.5
- Is the opera no longer of interest to you?
p. 30.4
- I skipped the opera again that week to complete a position paper on trade.
p. 30.5
- I was absent from the opera for the seventh week, feeling a sudden urge to clean out my files.
p. 30.7
- Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?
p. 49.2
- They "beat" her, then lampoon the acrobatics of the Chinese opera, as she is made to kneel onstage.
p. 53.7
- Chinese opera music comes up on the speakers.
p. 63.7
- Song begins to do opera moves, as he did the night they met.
p. 63.8
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.