the opera
noun
: an opera performance or opera performances
Have you ever been to the opera?
I enjoy going to the opera.
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Mac, as his middle school music teacher was affectionately known, would wrangle tickets to the opera, and the symphony, and the art museum, and the Broadway musical, for young Efrain Solis and his classmates.
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Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
The winding, heavy riff after the opera section, the one that would give the song one of its many second lives when Mike Myers and Dana Carvey headbanged to it in 1992’s Wayne’s World, was Mercury’s own invention.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
The event marked the realization of a longstanding vision to furnish the opera with a state-of-the-art venue, supplanting the previous opera house established in 1883.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025
To bring contemporary context to the story, Alcorn is setting the opera in 1970s America.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
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Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
The winding, heavy riff after the opera section, the one that would give the song one of its many second lives when Mike Myers and Dana Carvey headbanged to it in 1992’s Wayne’s World, was Mercury’s own invention.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
The event marked the realization of a longstanding vision to furnish the opera with a state-of-the-art venue, supplanting the previous opera house established in 1883.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025
To bring contemporary context to the story, Alcorn is setting the opera in 1970s America.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the opera
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“The opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20opera. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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