opera
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There were the opera productions with Peter Sellars, who made him look deeply inside himself.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
The acclaimed soprano built an international career spanning four decades, in which she performed at opera houses and concert halls around the world, singing works by composers including Richard Strauss, Schubert and Mozart.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Pushkin’s text eventually became the libretto that Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov employed in his opera of the same name.
From Salon • May 16, 2026
She names Italian opera star Cecilia Bartoli, Whitney Houston, late French rocker Johnny Hallyday and Celine Dion as her sources of inspiration.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
If I hadn't made him watch so many episodes of Days of Our Lives, he wouldn't have developed a nasty habit of speaking in the vernacular of a soap opera villain.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Vocabulary lists containing opera
Music - Introductory
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Music - Middle School
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Theater - Introductory
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