Opera vs Operagoing - What's the difference?
opera | operagoing |
(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).
Attending opera performances.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 24, author=Anne Midgette, title=Music That Thinks Outside the Chamber, work=New York Times
, passage=MY epiphany came when I told a friend I was going to a chamber music concert, and she — well-educated, well-heeled, operagoing — made a throwing-up gesture into her hand. }}
As a noun opera
is a theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.As an adjective operagoing is
attending opera performances.opera
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(wikipedia opera)Noun
(en-noun)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 operaSee also
* aria * ballet * masque * melodrama * musical comedy * recitative * singspiel *Anagrams
* ----operagoing
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