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noun(op-era)a drama set to music and made up of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment and orchestral overtures and interludes; specifically : grand opera
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noun(op-era)the score of a musical drama
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noun(op-era)the performance of an opera; also : a house where operas are performed
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noun(op-era)opera of a humorous character with a happy ending and usually some spoken dialogue
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noun(op-era)opera in which the plot is serious or tragic and the entire text is set to music
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noun(op-era)western
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noun(op-era)operetta
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noun(op-era)satirical comic opera
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noun(op-era)an 18th century farcical comic opera with dialogue in recitative
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noun(op-era)an opera characterized by spoken dialogue interspersed between the arias and ensemble numbers
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noun(op-era)an 18th century opera with a heroic or legendary subject
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noun(op-era)a serial drama performed originally on a daytime radio or television program and chiefly characterized by tangled interpersonal situations and melodramatic or sentimental treatment
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noun(op-era)a series of real-life events resembling a soap opera
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noun(op-era)the melodrama and sentimentality characteristic of a soap opera; also : something (such as a novel) having such qualities