opera has definitions from the fields of performing arts,music,fine art
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes

Used in print

(Chicago Daily Tribune...)

The Bayreuth_Festival opens July 23 with a new production of `` Tannhaeuser '' staged by Wieland_Wagner , who is doing all the operas this time , and conducted by Wolfgang_Sawallisch .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

He may respect too_much the Italian tradition of letting singers hold_on to their notes , but to restrain them in a singers ' opera may be quite difficult .

She has since turned_to Bellini , whose opera `` Beatrice_di_Tenda '' in a concert version with the American_Opera_Society introduced her to New_York last season .

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

Ever since he had first begun to study music and to teach it , Rousseau had dreamed of piercing through to fame as the result of a successful opera .

`` You must make an opera out of this material '' .

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[ noun ] (performing arts) theater where opera is performed

Synonyms

opera_house

Related terms

theater

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