(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.
Operetta
Definition:
(n.) A short, light, musical drama.
Example Sentences:
(1) He recently shared the Berlin stage – the Admiralspalast where Hitler once had a vast purpose-built box from which he would watch operetta – with Michael Mittermeier, a Bavarian comic with a considerable following in Germany.
(2) My intention is to champion this family and to inspire audiences night after night with a thrilling programme of musical diversity, attracting audiences from opera to operetta through to popular music.
(3) Eva Wiseman Candide – Leonard Bernstein As an opera, or an operetta or a musical, however you want to describe it, Candide has its problems.
(4) My teacher was about 108 and taught me to warble them like in an operetta, so when I first performed in the studio everyone was pissing themselves.
(5) But what’s original about his work is the fervor and fearlessness with which it borrows and recombines other genres and styles – pop, rock, jazz, operetta.
(6) Long, long fingers that were nearly always stained with engine oil from gadgets in the garden that he was trying to put right.” But, while Rodney wrote comic operettas (she quotes a scene from one set on a slow boat to India from memory for me), it was Molly who was the decisive musical influence on their son.
(7) And couldn't poor Brod see that in eliding Lehár's jolly and farcical operetta with Wagner's crushing toten lieder , Kafka manages in a single aside to undermine the entire airy and castellated edifice of late German romanticism?
(8) Egypt's military council, which has promised to surrender power to a democratically-elected president by the summer, envisaged this most emotive of anniversaries as a celebration, laying on air shows, firework displays and even a specially-commissioned operetta to mark the occasion.
(9) For Mann, the carefully crafted polycultural world of the hotel lobby – where the Poles speak French, the Italians dress in Parisian fashion, and the band plays selections from Hungarian operetta – is a fragile illusion.
(10) Hamilton is, as Alexis Soloski observed when she reviewed its earlier incarnation at the Public Theater, a combination of hip-hop, musical, operetta and poetry slam so surefooted and fast-paced it seems altogether new despite its name-dropping of a dozen other musicals and plays .
(11) Dickens, Kipling and Jerome K Jerome also appear to have shaped his writing, as did the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
(12) In an apparent attempt to dampen the energy of revolutionaries, the Supreme Council of Armed Forces has announced a series of official celebrations including military parades, air shows, a specially commissioned operetta and the distribution of prize coupons to citizens on the streets.
(13) In a previous episode he had heaped praise on Qatar, which allegedly finances the Muslim Brotherhood , with a chorus in the background singing "Save us from bankruptcy my dear Qatar" to the tune of Beloved Country, a famous Nasser-era operetta.
(14) The problem arose last month when a Beirut court banned the star from performing one of her classic operettas, Ya'ish, Ya'ish (Long Live, Long Live) because of a wrangle over royalties.