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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The actor and the opera singer married in December 2010, at a chapel in Windsor Great Park in England.
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Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
And our Mom’s parents took us to the opera.
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september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Getty Images The free festival will feature ten screenings from the Met’s Live in HD series, projected onto a large screen on the façade of the opera house.
—Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The other day, as the opera’s softball team, the Pitch Hitters, readied for an evening game in Central Park, a bespectacled, bearded opera employee stood on a red plastic box affixing a GoPro camera to the backstop.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
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Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
And our Mom’s parents took us to the opera.
—Literary Hub
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Getty Images The free festival will feature ten screenings from the Met’s Live in HD series, projected onto a large screen on the façade of the opera house.
—Jane Levere, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The other day, as the opera’s softball team, the Pitch Hitters, readied for an evening game in Central Park, a bespectacled, bearded opera employee stood on a red plastic box affixing a GoPro camera to the backstop.
—Dan Greene, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 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 10 Sep. 2025.
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