opera house

noun

: a theater devoted principally to the performance of operas
broadly : theater

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Diriyah is also home to the first opera house in the kingdom: the stunning Royal Diriyah Opera House is set to open in 2028. Mo Noubani, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2025 The historic centre of Naples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and there’s plenty to see from the 17th-century Royal Palace and gardens to the San Carlo Theatre, founded in 1737, and today, the oldest opera house in the world still in operation. Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025 New money families fought for their place at the table with old money institutions by throwing undeniably elegant balls (with the proper soup) and funding irresistibly cultured opera houses (with the proper spectators). Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2025 As journalist Rupert Christiansen has deftly noted, Louis Napoléon’s reign could be defined by newness: new buildings, new streets, new parks, new sewers, new monuments, new libraries, new bridges, anchored by an all-new opera house, and all at the behest of Louis’s right-hand man, Baron Haussmann. Jennifer Dasal july 16, Literary Hub, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for opera house

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First Known Use

1720, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of opera house was in 1720

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“Opera house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opera%20house. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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