Opera - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈɑːprə|  American pronunciation of the word opera
Brit.  |ˈɒp(ə)rə|  British pronunciation of the word opera

noun

- a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
- a commercial browser
- a building where musical dramas are performed

Extra examples

I am going to an opera tonight.

We go to the opera (=go to a performance of opera) regularly.

Do you enjoy opera?

She is dressing for the opera.

We bought tickets for the opera.

She developed a passion for opera.

The opera company is staging a revival of Verdi's Don Carlos.

...in the comic opera, the buffo shared his entrance aria with a grimacing mime...

...a corpulent, elegantly dressed opera singer came out and sang, and we knew it was over...

...having sung in opera houses all over the world, she has the confident demeanor of a seasoned cosmopolite...

...high standards of decorum are usually required when attending the opera...

...an opera singer with an appropriately euphonious name...

...his loud talking at the opera marked him as gauche and uncultured...

...the geometry of Sydney's famed opera house is suggestive of some modernistic sailing ship...

...in her memoirs the diva candidly recalls her amours with some of opera's best-known tenors and baritones...

Word forms

noun
singular: opera
plural: operas
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