How to use opera in a sentence

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• The acoustics in the opera house gave the whole concert a spooky sound.From the entry acoustics
• The Ring of the Nibelung is a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner.From the entry cycle
• You wouldn't expect teenagers to sing opera, but these kids will knock your socks off.From the entry knock someone's socks off
• The opera singer expanded his audience by singing songs from the shows.From the entry audience
• The writers are killing off lots of people in the soap opera.From the entry kill off
• I'd like you to come along with me to the opera.From the entry come along
• Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.From the entry taboo
• The role in the soap opera was the kiss of death for Ann's career as a theatrical actress.From the entry kiss of death
• My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.From the entry germinal
• Soap operas are an enduring form of telefiction.From the entry telefiction
• She has coached many opera stars.From the entry coach
• Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.From the entry drum
• Krapp’s Last Tape has been acted by prisoners in San Quentin and made into a chamber opera.2025 April 27, Susannah Clapp, “Gary Oldman is extraordinary in Krapp’s Last Tape”, in The Observer, archived from the original on 29 Apr…. From the entry wellspring
• Also known as “pop opera,” the sung-through musical is characterized by having little or no spoken dialogue.2024 October 10, Jim Patterson, Tim Donahue, A Concise History of Theatre, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry sung-through
• Instead, many of these musicals used a technique from traditional opera, called recitative.2024 October 10, Jim Patterson, Tim Donahue, A Concise History of Theatre, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry sung-through
• Her name was Aida, like the opera, and I said I’d heard it meant happy in Italian.2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 23. From the entry aida
• It is fair to say that this coronation steered well clear of the campery of comic opera.2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry campery
• The “Wagatha Christie” libel battle kept headline writers and lovers of soap opera happy for months.2022, Kate Moore, Here We Go Again...: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph (page vii). From the entry Wagatha Christie
• At the event, there will be performances by the PGSO, ballet dancers, and an opera singer.2019 March 25, Sawyer Bogdan,, “Mayor's Black & White Ball highlights community arts”, in MY PG NOW. From the entry PGSO
• The beau monde went to the Maria II opera house to see and be seen.2018, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal. From the entry beau monde
• They have cyberpunk and nanopunk, soft and hard sci-fi, military and alternate history, space operas.2015 July 10, Jessi Cape, “Books on Wheels”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 34, number 45, page 27. From the entry nanopunk
• At the end of the eighteenth century, French opera composers like A.2014, Peter Wegele, Max Steiner: Composing, Casablanca, and the Golden Age of Film Music. From the entry chiffre
• In his opera, Britten, by telling what we've always heard without listening, revirginates our ears.2013, Ned Rorem, An Absolute Gift: A New Diary, →ISBN. From the entry revirginate
• Much RPF is about celebrities' private relationships, just as most soap opera narratives concern characters' private relationships.2011, Abigail De Kosnik, “Soaps for Tomorrow: Media Fans Making Online Drama from Celebrity Gossip”, in Sam Ford, Abigail De Kosnik, C.…. From the entry RPF
• Shipwrecks on tempest-tossed seas are featured in a number of other ballets and operas.2011, Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 404. From the entry tempest-tossed
• “Lost” is certainly to be granted its points for its subfunction as a soap opera this season.2009 May 13, Ginia Bellafante, “Where It’s 1977 and 2007 All at the Same Time”, in New York Times. From the entry subfunction
• His macho soap opera name had put me in mind of aristocrats or oversexed mallards.2004, Torey Hayden, chapter 4, in Twilight Children, HarperCollins UK, published 2013, →ISBN. From the entry drake
• Is it bouillabaisse, bourride, burrida, cacciucco, solianka, matelote, sancochos, opera de pescado, or zuppa di pesce?2004, John Manikowski, Fish Grilled & Smoked: 150 Recipes for Cooking Rich, Flavorful Fish on the Backyard Grill, Streamside, Or in a Home…. From the entry sancocho
• Be a culture vulture by going to the ballet, opera or a classical concert.2004, Susie Whalley, Lisa Jackson, “Get Set for Success”, in Running Made Easy, London: Robson Books, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry culture vulture
• Those soap - opera studs and studettes sliding between satin sheets in the afternoon?1999 December 16, Mark Wolf, “The v-chip has arrived with little fanfare”, in The Coshocton Tribune. From the entry studette
• There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.1993, Raymond Leppard, Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music, page 78. From the entry snipping
• The oil operas pretty much do away with questions of social conscience.1992, Michael Parenti, “Affluent Class and Corporate Brass”, in Make-Believe Media, St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 100. From the entry oil opera
• Salal invented some soap opera about a mystery informant, and Meg sold it to the cops.1989 May 6, Liz Galst, “Meet Meg Lacey, Private Heat”, in Gay Community News, page 7. From the entry soap opera
• I call him Bradford because it makes me feel like I'm in a soap opera.1988, K. C. Constantine, Joey's Case, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry Bradford
• The most obvious gay connection to opera is the cult of the diva.1981 December 5, Michael Bronski, “Coming (Out) to Opera”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 6. From the entry claque
• Szechuan opera is one of the most classical of all Chinese opera styles.1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 11, Taipei…. From the entry Szechuan
• This opera was mainly in the style of late Puccini, with acerbities stolen from Stravinsky.1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 21, in Earthly Powers, Penguin, published 1981, page 115. From the entry acerbity
• It's a volume for those who delight in exploring the backwaters of nineteenth-century opera.1978, National Opera Association –, The Opera Journal, page 29. From the entry backwater
• He'll mention he likes the ballet, you'll tell him of your interest in opera.1977, Charles Silverstein, Edmund White, The Joy of Gay Sex, New York: Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry drop one's beads
• Clearly, Hitler saw his historical function as a Wagnerian grand opera.1949 September 4, H. R. Trevor-Roper, “Hitler Reappraised, Ten Years After”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on…. From the entry Hitler

Meaning of opera

1. noun A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance; usually, one sung-through, based on classical music and seen as more artistic and formalized than other forms of musical theater.
2. noun The score for such a work.
3. noun The genre of such works, the art of composing operas.

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Questions about opera in a sentence

How do you use opera in a sentence?

Opera is used as a noun. For example: “The acoustics in the opera house gave the whole concert a spooky sound.”

What is a short sentence with opera?

“She has coached many opera stars.”

What does opera mean?

Opera means a theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance; usually, one sung-through, based on classical music and seen as more artistic and formalized than other forms of musical theater.