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opera

/op-er-uh, op-ruh/US // ˈɒp ər ə, ˈɒp rə //UK // (ˈɒpərə, ˈɒprə) //

戏曲,歌剧院,戏院,歌剧

Related Words

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment, that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.Compare comic opera, grand opera.
    • : the form or branch of musical and dramatic art represented by such compositions.
    • : the score or the words of such a composition.
    • : a performance of one: to go to the opera.
    • : an opera house or resident company: the Paris Opera.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noungreat work of writing or music
Forms: operas
Synonyms
magnum opus大作,巨著,巨作,丰碑composition构成,组成,成分,成份creation创作,创造,创建,创设music音乐oeuvre创作,做法,节目,创作活动piece一块,一片,一件,块product产品,商品,产品介绍,产物production生产,产量,制作,产

Examples

  • Its graduates include comedian Dave Chappelle, opera singer Denyce Graves and Grammy-winning bass player Ben Williams.

  • Still, Lincoln loved music, especially opera, and showed up but didn’t dance at his inaugural balls.

  • Charles Wuorinen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who wrote the groundbreaking opera “Brokeback Mountain,” died on March 11 at age 81 from complications from a fall in Manhattan.

  • When she sat down at her computer one morning this spring, Kitty O’Meara didn’t intend to write an iconic poem, a children’s book or an opera.

  • It was mid-September and Sander hadn’t performed in an opera for six months.

  • It was a Senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.

  • One of the most horrific episodes of the Vietnam War is being made into a government-funded opera.

  • One beginning that amused him takes place at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.

  • In June, the executive offices of the Metropolitan Opera were broken into and graffitied with obscene messages.

  • The Metropolitan Opera is the old-school Cadillac of arts institutions.

  • A small contingent of the members hurried off to applaud the successful comic opera of the hour.

  • At the present time he was trombone in the “Tournée Gulland,” a touring opera company.

  • That you did not steal from her house by a secret passage, on the night of the destruction of the opera-house?

  • Certain evenings during the week she and her husband attended the opera or sometimes the play.

  • Fecit dextera Di virtutem: non est mortuus, sed vixit; & nunc incolumis narrat opera Di.

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