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Opera vs Operagoer - What's the difference?

opera | operagoer |

As a noun operagoer is

someone who attends an opera performance.

opera

English

(wikipedia opera)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (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.
  • *
  • *:“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).
  • Derived terms

    * comic opera * grand opera * horse opera * oat opera * opera bouffe * opera comique * opera buffa * opera hat * opera house * opera seria * opera singer * opera slipper * soap opera * space opera

    See also

    * aria * ballet * masque * melodrama * musical comedy * recitative * singspiel *

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    operagoer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who attends an opera performance
  • *{{quote-news, year=1988, date=October 14, author=Dennis Polkow, title=La Traviata, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=What is especially disappointing about all of this is the effect it has on first-time operagoers , some of whom I heard chatting behind me on opening night. }}