grand opera
a serious, usually tragic, opera in which most of the text is set to music.
Origin of grand opera
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How to use grand opera in a sentence
Italians gave the world grand opera, and in Sinatra, Italian culture gave the world the foremost craftsman of popular song.
Sure—the first was just fireworks—grand-opera stuff—opens up the voice, said OLeary.
The Woman Gives | Owen JohnsonI am 142 very conscious of this difference, and I feel as though I had started to sing aloud before a group of grand-opera stars.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie ChaplinGroener had evidently decided to make the best of the situation for he answered at once: "The grand opera house."
Through the Wall | Cleveland MoffettOf grand opera even the Daily Telegraph is moved to say that "the translations are in most cases literary nightmares."
Spirit and Music | H. Ernest Hunt
In the evening they attended the grand opera, at the invitation of Mr. Arbuckle, and the next morning proceeded to Strasburg.
Down the Rhine | Oliver Optic
British Dictionary definitions for grand opera
an opera that has a serious plot and is entirely in musical form, with no spoken dialogue
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