Word Finder - opera

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A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.

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The score for such a work.

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A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.

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A company dedicated to performing such works.

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(by extension) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.

He wasn't dressed like opening night at the opera by accident!

Here you find articles in the encyclopedia about opera composers.

Here you find articles in the encyclopedia about opera.

I don't find it so snappy as Opera, but it's fast enough not to be annoying.

To you, you're watching a soap opera, a play, something with no " real life " to it.

K9 Which was the first soap opera on Channel 4?

Ferrandi opera (Dijon, 1694); reproduced in Migne, Patr.

Oehler only the first volume, containing the Opera dogmatics, has appeared (1865).

Covent Garden Theatre (1858) is the chief seat of grand opera in London.

The Opera mathematica of Fermat were published at Toulouse, in 2 vols.

Visitors can appreciate the beauty of the opera house.

With Richard Wagner, opera reached the apex of German Romanticism.

Then add funky urban beats to opera arias from Rossini, Puccini, Donizetti, et al.

The vocal works (opera, concert arias, masses) are in a separate volume with the green cover.

Geoff is a former actor who played the baddie in the Welsh soap opera Dinas.

He pays for rare bel canto works to be recorded on the Opera Rare label.

Do you have a voice that could melt the heart of the harshest opera critic?

Working with children from three Lewisham primary schools to produce an opera libretto with the River Thames as its theme.

During this period she appeared in the short lived shipping soap opera " Triangle " .

In the middle stages, the highly rhythmical music of bei guan and Peking opera became dominant.

The Orchestra of Welsh National Opera together with renowned harpist Elinor Bennett are touring Wales with the work in early January.

More ridicule of the Savior There is little doubt that Jerry Springer the Opera is motivated by hatred of Christianity.

This is the first time that Shanghai Yue Opera is featured in a truly intercultural and multimedia production in the UK.

Jerry springer the opera.

Plans include the libretto for an opera based on The Little Prince (music by Rachel Portman) for English National Opera.

The production was well received by opera magazine, click here for reviews, photographs and a complete libretto of the opera.

Goodall's infectious tunes which included light opera and modern musical theater numbers - were complemented by dazzling word play from Hart.

The field of Italian opera was dominated by Giuseppe Verdi, while German opera was virtually monopolized by Richard Wagner.

Kids Op - see how you can compose an opera over the internet.

Octavia was the ostrich who just walked around looking beautiful and singing opera.

Strauss thought the libretto ' The born comic opera - more suited to music than either Figaro or The Barber of Seville ' .

Taiwanese opera was a major form of entertainment in early Taiwan society.

In the early 1900's touring companies came to offer drama, music & grand opera.

Her agent heard about a casting call going out for a role on the long-running Australian soap opera, Neighbors.

Fortunato is no standard hero out of 18th century Italian opera.

Mozart's satirical opera is staged by ENO in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Other projects have included numerous opera galas as well as concert performances of opera galas as well as concert performances of operas by Britten, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini.

The Archers is the world's longest running soap opera.

Sunday Independent, Ireland, May 26 1996 " Welsh mezzo Buddug Verona James whose voice and temperament seem ideal for baroque opera.

The rest of the album is given over to the rock opera ' Sorrow & Promise ' .

Certainly, I do not think the Agatha Christie would lend itself to treatment as a modern opera buffa!

In 1637, Venice opened the first public opera house, Teatro San Cassiano.

The project will also be the site of the first opera house in Dubai.

What he said, if I remember, was that it was like being led through an empty opera house.

Students have the opportunity to participate in activities ranging from gamelan orchestra to fully staged opera.

The Opera House and the world class wineries bring an air of sophistication contrasting with the rugged outback and wildlife.

Waiters burst into half-conscious accompaniment to classical and light opera overtures.

However, his music, along with the stories his pieces are set to, are quite palatable for mini opera buffs.

A recent musical evening at the Rectory, Opera to Broadway, included the percussionist Evelyn Glennie.

And in spreading the pestilence of posh tedium, opera has been the worst offender.