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opera

An opera is a story told by actors singing instead of speaking, along with an orchestra. The couple dressed up to go hear their favorite opera at the theatre.

opera

a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes a building where musical dramas are performed

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Simple sentences

I don't understand opera.
I like opera.
This is an opera in five acts.
The opera starts at seven.
The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings.
Maria Callas was a famous opera singer.
Route 12 stops near the opera house.
The opera singer has a beautiful voice.
What's your favorite opera?
Love is a comedy in France, a tragedy in England, an opera in Italy, and a melodrama in Germany.
Mary asked Tom to go to the opera with her.
Yesterday I went to the opera.
He's a fan of Klingon opera.
She's a fan of Italian opera.
This opera has three acts.
I adore the opera.
I was fascinated by her opera singing.
What's your favorite soap opera?
Have you ever been to an opera?

Movie subtitles

If you still like me, and want to see me, come tomorrow to the opera and ball.
It is barely possible you may hear of a ghost, a Phantom of the Opera!
The attendant of Box Five will not laugh when you ask about the opera ghost!
One night each year, all Paris mingled, forgetful of caste-- the merry. mad Bal Masque de l'Opera.
High above Paris on the roof of the Opera!
That was the Opera ghost!
At nine o'clock the following evening a mysterious barouche stopped on the rotunda side of the Opera.
Fear for his brother's safety, brought Comte de Chagny to the Opera house that night.
Turn the grasshopper -- and the Opera House is blown to a thousand bits!
Yeah, at the opera, right in the front box.
Are you fond of opera, Monsieur?
You know the main staircase in the opera?
Sutton's Opera House.
May I borrow your opera glasses, please?
He brought Adbelkader to Longchamp races, the opera, awarded him the Legion of Honor.
The target - the Odessa Opera House.
The Paris Opera House, rising nobly over medieval torture chambers, hidden dungeons, long forgotten.
She, the favorite prima donna of the Paris Opera!
Where will you build your new opera house?
The way he exchanged glances last night. with the French countess at the opera.
Is it true the opera is on the decline in Central Europe?
No, I went there because I like the opera.
She wanted to see the first act of the opera, she will rejoin us.
The opera must have finished by now!
What are you going to call this new opera, Jerry?
Fine, we haven't been to the opera for weeks.
The opera with her boyfriend.
How did you enjoy the opera?
I'd like to go someplace smart with you, like the opera.
The opera's old hat, baby.
THE OPERA WAS OVER TWO HOURS AGO.
HE HASN'T RETURNED FROM THE OPERA, SIR.
I go to the opera.
You working in this horse opera too? - Uh-huh.

News and current affairs

These arrangements have indeed made it possible for China to build entire cities in a matter of years, as well as high-speed railways, opera houses, stadiums, industrial parks, massive dams, and whatnot.
Kim Jong-il was greeted with the same fervor when he entered the opera house that today marks public mourning of his death.
Our intelligentsia loves him because he regularly attends theatre, opera, and ballet.
And Berlusconi, consumed as he is with defending his difficult position as the main protagonist in a seemingly endless soap opera of sex scandals, is not capable of reining in such blatant provocations on the part of the Lega Nord.
It does not help much to sing pop songs or opera arias in the bathroom.
September is traditionally the time when opera companies and orchestras return to their home cities from Aix, Salzburg, Tanglewood, and countless other summer festivals.
It is also true that we do not have to buy any particular book or listen to an opera.
A malign example is Philip Morris's donation of money to museums, symphony orchestras, and opera houses, cynically aimed at buying off artists who might otherwise work to ban cigarettes.
Then, because this is a soap opera, Song suddenly dies in a car crash, just as he is rushing to the hospital - while being chased by corruption investigators! - to check on his sweetheart and their unborn baby boy.
When a government-run brick plant in Hongdong County of Shanxi Province was revealed to be using slave labor, a famous episode from a Beijing opera flashed through my mind.
In that opera, a prostitute named Su San, after being sentenced to death, pleads for mercy to unconcerned passersby as she is marched down the main roads of Hongdong County in shackles.
Directly across the aisle from me, there was Putin, sitting between the one-time dissident cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich and his equally famous wife, opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya.
Pyongyang, the capital, was dark and deserted, illuminated by the cavalcade taking us from the official housing to the opera house, only to return to darkness behind us.
It does not help much to sing pop songs or opera arias in the bathroom. You must be able to draw a listening and cheering crowd to qualify for the elite.
On my last visit to Moscow, I noticed that a friend, a singer in the Bolshoi opera, had tied a small Ribbon of Saint George to her white Mercedes.
Much of the history of the two centuries since Beethoven composed his opera has centered on that quest for freedom: the fight against colonial powers, the campaigns for basic human rights, the resistance to modern totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

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