Opus vs Opera - What's the difference?
opus | opera |
A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works.
A work, especially of art.
(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).
Opera is a related term of opus.
Opera is a derived term of opus.
As nouns the difference between opus and opera
is that opus is a work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works while opera is a theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.opus
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Beethoven's ''opus'' eighteen quartets are considered by many to be the beginning of the Romantic era.
- The painter's last opus was a dedication to all things living, in a surprising contrast to all of his prior work.