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Definition of Opera
Opera
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.

The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.

The house where operas are exhibited.

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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
William Butler Yeats

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
Freddie Mercury

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Robert Burns

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
Victor Borge

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
Jerome Lawrence

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden



Opera Translations
opera in Afrikaans is opera
opera in Dutch is opera
opera in Finnish is ooppera
opera in German is Oper
opera in Norwegian is opera


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