opera house
a theater devoted chiefly to operas.
Older Use. a theater, especially a large, ornate one.
Origin of opera house
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How to use opera house in a sentence
The stormy opening of Verdi’s Otello combines crashing cymbals with a low sustained organ cluster that rumbles through an enormous opera house for a very long time.
With cases rising in Austria since late August, no one knows how long the opera house will stay open.
Why Vienna opera singers are ready to risk their lives to perform in a pandemic | Julia Belluz | September 30, 2020 | VoxOne beginning that amused him takes place at the Metropolitan opera house in New York.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt has always featured the very best voices and employed the most sophisticated stagecraft of any opera house.
Larger than Mariupol, it boasts an opera house and theater but most stores downtown are closed and few people walk the streets.
On the Bus: Ukraine’s Frontline Express Across the Battle Lines | Ted Phillips | September 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
And I thought I should come back one day to do a giant walk over the Sydney Cove from the opera house to the top of the bridge.
Philippe Petit’s Moment of Concern Walking the WTC Tightrope | Anthony Haden-Guest | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis was not the Impossible—the Eiffel Tower, the Sydney opera house—this was a walk above the LongHouse pond.
Philippe Petit’s Moment of Concern Walking the WTC Tightrope | Anthony Haden-Guest | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat you did not steal from her house by a secret passage, on the night of the destruction of the opera-house?
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterHe was about five years older than Tchaikovsky, and had held the post of cellist at the opera house since the age of fifteen.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyMr. Monterey, of the Centerport opera house, was in a seat down in front that evening.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonThe opera had a great success, and remained in the repertory of the Kiev opera house throughout the entire season.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste TchaikovskyThose who have received the benediction are instantly away to the opera house or the wood of Boulogne.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
British Dictionary definitions for opera house
a theatre designed for opera
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