What's the difference between ballet and opera?

Ballet


Definition:

  • (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
  • (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet.
  • (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
  • (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The somatograms demonstrated that the ballet dancers had relatively smaller upper arms and larger calves and ankles compared with the reference female.
  • (2) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Dutch National Ballet’s production of Coppélia Photograph: Marc Haegeman
  • (4) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (5) The decision, which is being contested by the arts world in Germany and beyond, will effectively end the Deutsche Oper am Rhein – considered to be among Germany's 10 leading theatre institutions – and will seriously dent Duisburg's musical theatre and ballet output.
  • (6) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
  • (7) The data from this study suggest that the body type characteristics associated with professional classical ballet dancers are already apparent in the pre-professional adolescent dancers.
  • (8) Twenty-nine soloist and principal dancers (mean age, 29.08 years) from America's two most celebrated ballet companies were administered questionnaires measuring personality (API), occupational stress (OES), strain (PSQ), and coping mechanisms (PRQ), and injury patterns.
  • (9) And the US default and the ballet ballot on strike action were both looming -- they could have wiped out the positive momentum.
  • (10) The effects of nutrition on the incidence of stress fractures among classical ballet dancers were studied.
  • (11) She was raised in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, where she attended a Welsh-speaking school and trained as a ballet dancer before studying theatre, film and TV at Aberystwyth University.
  • (12) An ethnic Tatar from eastern Russia, Mingazov was a successful ballet dancer before he entered the Russian Army in the late 1980s.
  • (13) Women who feel "unfeminine" when playing sport could take up other activities like "ballet, gymnastics, cheerleading and even roller-skating", the minister of sports, equalities and tourism Helen Grant has suggested.
  • (14) But this is not some illustration of a legend, it is Mlle Fiocre in the ballet La Source , and therefore his first ballet picture, not that you would notice if the title didn't give the game away.
  • (15) Grace and speed In his physical prime, a decade earlier, Ali had such grace and foot speed that watching him perform almost became an extension of the balletic arts.
  • (16) So when he accepted the post of artist-in-residence at American Ballet Theatre , the company rightly felt they had scored a coup.
  • (17) Watching Fox News is like a rehearsed ballet: every show over the last week has claimed that president Obama’s response to the murder of journalist James Foley has been so weak because he issued a statement before going back to his golf game while on vacation – host Judge Jeanine’s monologue epitomised the channel’s sentiment.
  • (18) The results were evident in the "hip-hop ballet" class in a new dance studio, and a mural of a meteor containing a dove about to hit a forest struck by lightning, suggesting that somewhere a heavy metal band is missing an album cover.
  • (19) Back in the high puritan era of 17th-century England, when Oliver Cromwell tried to ban all forms of public dance, from court masques and ballets to maypole dancing, the effect of the prohibition was to create a generation for whom dance represented sin.
  • (20) I have always been crazy flexible because I did ballet.

Opera


Definition:

  • (n.) A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama.
  • (n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.
  • (n.) The house where operas are exhibited.
  • (pl. ) of Opus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
  • (2) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
  • (3) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
  • (4) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
  • (5) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
  • (6) Tommy (1975), an engaging version of the Who's slightly dotty rock opera, was followed by two of his less successful freeform biographies, Lisztomania (1975), starring the Who's Roger Daltrey, and Valentino (1977), starring Rudolf Nureyev.
  • (7) As a viewer you really feel for him.” Mental illness is not the only health issue soap operas are approaching from a more understanding angle.
  • (8) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
  • (9) The room never existed in the Palais Garnier, but belongs to its predecessor the Opera Choiseul which had burned to the ground some years earlier.
  • (10) This weekend, the Montpellier dance festival and the Tours jazz festival were among cancelled events while the opening of the summer's biggest opera gathering, at Aix-en-Provence, was postponed.
  • (11) Of the big national companies, the only one to take a major hit was English National Opera, while there was also a big cut for the Lowry, and complete cuts for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and touring companies including the long-standing Red Ladder.
  • (12) You say we should consider the matter of the universality of the BBC, but surely the golden thread that runs through the concept of the BBC is that we all pay in and we should all get something out – and that includes my constituents as well as his constituents, those who like opera and those who like soap opera.” Whittingdale replied: “Even if I wanted to close down Strictly Come Dancing, which I don’t, it would be completely wrong for the government to try and decide which programmes the BBC should make and which they shouldn’t.
  • (13) The arts broadcaster Lord Bragg said Hall, who moves to the BBC from running the Royal Opera House, had no option but to cut a swath through BBC middle management in the wake of the damning conclusions of the Pollard report into the Savile crisis.
  • (14) "In our last golden age, we built an opera house with plantation money.
  • (15) Ninety-one instrumentalists and 51 opera singers of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, were examined, in order to study the frequency of symptoms from the musculoskeletal system and upper airways.
  • (16) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
  • (17) English National Opera's new production next month will be the first time it has been staged in London – astounding given the popularity of Adams, and the fact that some regard it as his most impressive achievement.
  • (18) A secret 10-day emergency process has culminated in the appointment of Royal Opera House chief executive Lord (Tony) Hall to the £450,000-a-year job of running the BBC , as the corporation turns to a former veteran to help begin the process of recovering from the Jimmy Savile and Newsnight crises.
  • (19) Disney is producing Star Wars Episode VII after buying all rights to the long-running space opera for $4.05bn (£2.5bn) last October.
  • (20) Other schemes include a plan for Paternoster Square beside St Paul's cathedral in 1987 and designs for the Royal Opera House.