opera
Example Sentences
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If it was a soap opera, he'd have been barred from the pub and written out the script.
From BBC
One of the greatest operas of our time, John Adams’ “Doctor Atomic,” contemplates the creation of nuclear weapons as the functioning of a latter-day Faust, Goethe’s most lasting creation.
From Los Angeles Times
Some opera critics welcomed the idea of a woman leading the Venice opera for the first time.
As Hungarian Gyorgy Kurtag, who is widely considered one of the greatest living classical composers, turns 100 on Thursday, he will offer a one-of-a-kind birthday gift to music lovers: a brand-new opera.
From Barron's
The musical-theater singers excelled in theatricality and diction, but I missed some of the lushness that we expect from opera performances.
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