English word senses marked with topical category "Opera"
Parent categories: Musical genres, Theater, Genres, Music, Art, Entertainment, Sound, Culture, Energy, Society, Nature
Total 18 word senses
- Lindmania (Noun) enthusiasm for Jenny Lind (Johanna Maria Lind, 1820–1887), Swedish opera singer
- Ringhead (Noun) A fan of the opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner.
- Ringnut (Noun) A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.
- Sydney Opera House (Proper name) A multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Wagnerite (Noun) An admirer of the German composer Richard Wagner or his work.
- antiopera (Noun) An opera (dramatical production) that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of the opera.
- chamber opera (Noun) A genre of opera written to be performed with a chamber ensemble.
- chamber opera (Noun) An individual opera in this genre.
- demi-caractère (Adjective) Which, in the historical French nomenclature, was halfway between serious (sérieux) and comic (comique); typically, where the protagonists or the plot were not noble enough compared to those derived from mythology or history, but could still convey serious emotions (see for example the 1886 Camille Bellaigue quotation about Bizet's opera Carmen under French demi-caractère)
- fairy opera (Noun) An individual opera in this genre.
- grand opera (Noun) A genre of 19th-century opera characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras, and lavish and spectacular design and stage effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events.
- opera (Noun) The genre of such works, the art of composing operas.
- opera house (Noun) A theatre, or similar building, primarily used for staging opera.
- opera seria (Noun) Serious or noble opera.
- prima donna (Noun) The principal female singer or the leading lady.
- ritornello (Noun) A recurring tutti passage in Baroque music for orchestra or chorus.
- singspiel (Noun) An early German form of opera consisting of spoken dialogue interspersed with song.
- toi, toi, toi (Interjection) A superstitious expression of encouragement prior to a performance.
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