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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To bring contemporary context to the story, Alcorn is setting the opera in 1970s America.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
What the audience will get to do is decide the ending of the opera — a comedy about mistaken identity, suspicious lovers and infidelity.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
The actor and the opera singer married in December 2010, at a chapel in Windsor Great Park in England.
—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
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
What the audience will get to do is decide the ending of the opera — a comedy about mistaken identity, suspicious lovers and infidelity.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
The actor and the opera singer married in December 2010, at a chapel in Windsor Great Park in England.
—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
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 18 Sep. 2025.
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