opera

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• WordNet 3.6
  • n opera a building where musical dramas are performed
  • n Opera a commercial browser
  • n opera a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
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• Interesting fact: Daytime dramas are called Soap Operas because they were originally used to advertise soap powder. In America in the early days of TV, advertisers would write stories around the use of their soap powder
• • Opera A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arias, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama.
  • Opera The house where operas are exhibited.
  • Opera The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.
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• Interesting fact: Melba toast is named after an Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba
• • n opera A form of extended dramatic composition in which music is an essential and predominant factor; a musical drama, or a drama in music. ; ; . The opera is one of the chief forms of musical art; on many grounds it is claimed to be the culminating musical form. At least it affords opportunity for the application of nearly every known resource of musical effect. Its historical beginning was doubtless in the musical declamation of the Greeks, especially in connection with their dramatic representations. The idea of a musical drama was perpetuated during the middle ages under the humble guise of mysteries or miracle-plays, in which singing was an accessory. The modern development began in Italy near the close of the sixteenth century, when an attempt was made to revive the ancient melodic declamation, an attempt which led directly to the discovery and establishment of monody and harmony in the place of the medieval counterpoint, of the recitative and the aria as definite methods of composition, and of instrumentation as an independent element in musical works. The modern opera involves the following distinct musical constituents, combined in various ways: recitatives, musical declamations, mainly epic or dramatic in character, with or without extended accompaniment
  • n opera The score or words of a musical drama, either printed or in manuscript; a libretto.
  • n opera A theater where operas are performed; an opera-house.
  • n opera The administration, revenue, and property of an Italian church or parish.
  • n opera Specifically, a ballad-opera (see def. 1).
  • n opera Plural of opus.
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• Interesting fact: In Chicago, it is illegal to take a french poodle to the opera.
• • n Opera op′ėr-a a musical drama: a place where operas are performed
  • adj Opera used in or for an opera, as an opera-glass, &c
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• Boy George

  

  “If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.”
• Italian Proverb

  

  “Bed is the poor man's opera.”
• Irvin S. Cobb

  

  “You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.”
• Sir Edward Appleton

  

  “I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand.”
• Edward Gardner

  

  “Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.”
• W. H. Auden

  

  “No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

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