Ballet vs Opera - What's the difference?
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A classical form of dance.
A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
The company of persons who perform this dance.
(music) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa-la burden or chorus, most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.
(heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
(Webster 1913)
(lb) A theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
(lb) The score for such a work.
A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera , the gorged dowagers,, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
A company dedicated to performing such works.
(lb) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembing an opera.
A collection of work (plural of opus).