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How to pronounce opera in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms opera house
Type of theater, theatre, house
Derivation operatic
Type Words
Type Words
Type of serious music, classical music, classical
Has types musical drama, bouffe, comic opera, grand opera, opera bouffe, opera comique, rock opera
Derivation operatic

Examples of opera

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The outsize story and emotions cry out for the bigger canvas of movies or opera.
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The Hotel Manager is portrayed as a mysterious, Grim Reaper figure in the opera.
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Opera Software is a maker of browsers for personal computers and mobile devices.
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He also now probably gets first dibs on the New York premiere of Bolcom's opera.
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This is really an opera in which life-and-death matters hover over every moment.
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Opera singers Laura Knoop Very and her husband, Raymond Very, also will perform.
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On Friday morning, she gave interviews and prepared to see the opera that night.
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You might, after all, say the same of a Mozart opera and a Lloyd Webber musical.
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After a hasty exposition, what has read as fantasy suddenly becomes space opera.
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More examples
  • A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
  • A commercial browser
  • A building where musical dramas are performed
  • (operatic) of or relating to or characteristic of opera
  • Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. ...
  • The OPERA experiment (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus) has been designed to perform the most straightforward test of the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations. ...
  • This is an inclusive glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names.
  • Todmobile is an Icelandic pop/rock band which was very popular in Iceland in the 1990s.
  • Opera is a 1987 Italian giallo film written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, and Ian Charleson. Cinematography is done by Ronnie Taylor while Brian Eno and Claudio Simonetti composed the film's score. ...