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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While the opera Lulu was playing out front, the tuner and his son toiled backstage.
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Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
This, despite not intimately knowing the opera repertoire, though his studies gave him a classical music grounding.
—Jocheved Cohen, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
Had Otello understood that all the world is a joke, as Falstaff startlingly reveals at the end of the opera, Iago would never have been able to poison Otello’s susceptible frail ego with his ridiculous tales of handkerchiefs and what-not.
—Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Bonarowski is Polish-American, de Almeida is Brazilian and Hassler and Shade-Alexander are both American, evoking the multicultural aspects of the opera’s story.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
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Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
This, despite not intimately knowing the opera repertoire, though his studies gave him a classical music grounding.
—Jocheved Cohen, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026
Had Otello understood that all the world is a joke, as Falstaff startlingly reveals at the end of the opera, Iago would never have been able to poison Otello’s susceptible frail ego with his ridiculous tales of handkerchiefs and what-not.
—Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Bonarowski is Polish-American, de Almeida is Brazilian and Hassler and Shade-Alexander are both American, evoking the multicultural aspects of the opera’s story.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for the opera
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