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Opera vs Scena - What's the difference?

opera | scena |

As nouns the difference between opera and scena

is that opera is (lb) a theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance while scena is a scene in an opera.

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

    Related terms

    * operatic * operetta * * operable * operand * operant * operate * operation * operational * operative * operator * opus

    See also

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

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    scena

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scene in an opera.
  • An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.
  • * (William Smith Rockstro), A General History of Music
    • Few Contralto singers are unacquainted with the beautiful Scena , Ah rendimi qual core'', from ''Mitrane .
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