noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grand opera
long-running show/musical/soap opera etc
opera house
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the Sydney Opera House
pop/opera/folk etc singer
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her favourite pop singer
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a famous Italian opera singer
soap opera
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
comic
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I doubt it too; it is simply too good comic opera to be true.
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The comic opera of Gilbert and Sullivan is a regular feature on the Alexandra's varied programme.
grand
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Elizabeth is an extraordinary mixture of epic film, grand opera and grand guignol.
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It is a setting worthy of grand opera .
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A portion of the festival was devoted to grand opera .
great
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The trees were growing, it seemed to him, on the stage of a great opera house.
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This is the principal reason that the great voices of opera seldom sing popular songs.
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Yet political feeling, rather than ideology, is at the heart of all great opera .
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Supertitles are the greatest advancement in opera production in the last 50 years.
late
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But Monteverdi's later operas , most of them lost, belong to another chapter.
major
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Mr. Renton Major opera companies in receipt of public funds offer concessionary ticket prices for certain groups, including students.
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Domingo is the only one who heads a major opera company. 7.
new
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Meanwhile, new opera is everywhere.
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Ay, lady, the smokehouse is empty and baby needs a new pair of opera pumps.
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As well as his teaching, and a planned series of concerts in the autumn, Mozart was also working on a new opera .
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We were discussing the new opera production the director of the San Francisco Opera company was looking for.
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I was hoping to get the chance to see the new Beethoven opera .
■ NOUN
buff
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs .
company
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Rain was reminded of amateur opera companies , of Madeleine Corley.
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An opera company was formed to grace the new Civic Theatre under construction.
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Mr. Renton Major opera companies in receipt of public funds offer concessionary ticket prices for certain groups, including students.
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This is meant to rebuke the visitor: these monkeys have an opera company !
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He insisted on a clause in his contract assuring him that his duties would not interfere with rehearsals for the opera company .
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Domingo is the only one who heads a major opera company . 7.
glass
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The Duke back again behind his opera glass .
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Celestine pressed the opera glasses against her eyes until they hurt.
house
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Once the best you could hope for was a 50-year-old prima ballerina who sometimes starred at the local opera house .
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They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
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They polished up the opera house , and every summer stars from the Metropolitan came out and performed.
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The city cleverly combines cultural attractions such as museums, galleries, theatres and opera houses - with a very strong fun-loving steak.
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There was great resistance initially, but now almost every opera house uses them.
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But it was in the opera house not the organ loft that he found his true métier.
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But opera is politically neutral and the Khabarovsk opera house was vacant most of the time.
production
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Some of your Salzburg opera productions are also going on film, too?
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Divas are often the financial linchpins for opera productions costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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At Covent Garden he dominated opera production in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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Supertitles are the greatest advancement in opera production in the last 50 years.
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We were discussing the new opera production the director of the San Francisco Opera company was looking for.
singer
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Some people say he's a famous opera singer who likes to come incognito back to his roots.
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An opera singer was shrieking-wah-wah.
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And Angèle Didier is supposed to be an opera singer , an experienced woman of the world.
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The portrait photographer had me clasp my hands like an opera singer and look straight into the camera.
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This was the home of the celebrated opera singer Destinová who held her salon here.
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Another was a leading light opera singer in the local community.
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I worked and worked at my singing, because I wanted to be an opera singer .
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My father told me a joke once, about a man who marries an ugly opera singer because he loves her voice.
soap
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For example, many soap operas omit older people entirely, as if we were all perpetually middle-aged!
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This is not a surprise, because Bozeman weeps with the ease of a soap opera grandmother.
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In those old soap operas , the women used to destroy one another.
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In this way the Jordache pair transcended their soap opera status.
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You're expected to behave as if you're in a soap opera these days.
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The stupid sexist comments of the blokes with whom and for whom she worked merely provided an entertaining soap opera wallpaper.
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Read in studio Thousands of fans have been flocking to see Britain's longest running soap opera on the live stage.
■ VERB
perform
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You have to sing lieder with your true voice, and put more intelligence into performing opera .
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Students could learn how to play folk guitar or sing and perform in opera .
sing
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Can one use the same technique to sing opera and lieder?
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After the meal she sang Teochew opera pieces in a booming falsetto.
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Mr Wilfred Franks, who lives in Middlesbrough, also sang in both operas .
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Most of all her voice booms, whether she's praising her spicy Southwest eggs or when she sings opera on stage.
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She no longer sang in opera but her voice was still superb.
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Students could learn how to play folk guitar or sing and perform in opera .
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He proudly claims to be able to sing three operas by heart.
watch
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I have watched her at the opera , where she glittered.
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They really dragged just watching telly, and everyone wanted to watch the soap operas and sit coms.
write
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Back home, Wolfgang set about writing the opera anyway.
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In the mid-1950s, Piazzola began to write operas and concertos based on the tangos.
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Aribert Reinman, who wrote an opera , Lear, for me, is a special case.
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Donizetti wrote about a million operas .
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Mozart and he wrote most of the opera in the stage-coach.
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He took up writing opera libretti, and came to Vienna around 1780, where he obtained a court appointment.
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Thus the best libretto ever written for the best opera ever written is scarcely tolerable as reading matter.
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In the summer of 1774 Wolfgang was commissioned to write an opera buffa for the next carnival season in Munich.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
golf/opera etc nut
opera/court/movie etc house
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A belligerent crowd of some fifty thousand gathered around the court house .
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Not only was the curtain rung down but the opera house was dismantled.
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She prefers her recordings made live in the opera house and regards herself totally as a woman of the theatre.
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The Court House , where the business was conducted, can still be seen today.
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Then he opened a movie house and said he was definitely done with pro basketball.
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There are two public houses , a butcher's shop, a chapel, and a court house.
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They grew wealthy overnight and had a beautiful little opera house built in the midst of their shacks on the steep slope.
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They polished up the opera house , and every summer stars from the Metropolitan came out and performed.
wine/film/opera etc buff
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Alas, even the most well-meaning opera buffs have an unfortunate habit of making their favorite indoor sport sound impossibly complicated.
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For the real film buff , however, the place to be has to be BlackStar.
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Inside, bartenders wearing leather harnesses serve beer in cans to an assortment of brutes, heathens, and opera buffs .
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It all started when wine buff Liz entered another competition in the Express.
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Rubbish, I hear all you wine buffs out there say.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you enjoy opera ?
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one of Puccini's best-loved operas
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Career Girls never devolves into soap opera , but remains a focused, complex portrayal of a friendship.
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It might be helpful at this point to consider how the opera as a whole works along comparable lines.
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Like everybody from factory workers to opera stars, writers were supposed to serve the totalitarian state and its purposes.
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Rain was reminded of amateur opera companies, of Madeleine Corley.
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There will be a lot of opera buffs interested in these particular stamps as well as the normal collectors.
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This is the principal reason that the great voices of opera seldom sing popular songs.
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Yes, this is a soap opera .