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chamber opera

American  

noun

  1. an opera requiring few performers and a small orchestra.


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Last week alone, four premieres around town created an atmospheric river of chamber opera and opera-like works, home-grown and imported.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Better known for reinvention than status quo, L.A. is, in fact, a chamber opera town of renown.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

Brant said when Cremo first asked if he’d be interested in helping adapt his play, “I was thinking maybe a chamber opera on a less grand scale.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 2023

A chamber opera about refugee children and the trauma of mass displacement will premiere next year at Spoleto Festival USA, the organization in Charleston, S.C., announced on Saturday.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2023

Huang will conduct Seattle Opera’s production of “Bound,” the chamber opera he composed with librettist Bao-Long Chu, June 9-18 in Tagney Jones Hall at the Opera Center at Seattle Center.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2023

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