opera

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n.  歌剧; 歌剧剧本; 歌剧艺术; 歌剧团; 歌剧院
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牛津词典

noun

• 歌剧；歌剧剧本；歌剧艺术
  a dramatic work in which all or most of the words are sung to music; works of this type as an art form or entertainment
  1. Puccini's operas
     普契尼的歌剧
  2. to go to the opera
     去看歌剧
  3. an opera singer
     歌剧演员
  4. light/grand opera
     轻 / 大歌剧
• 歌剧团；歌剧院
  a company that performs opera ; a building in which operas are performed
  1. the Vienna State Opera
     维也纳国家歌剧院

柯林斯词典

• See also:...a one-act opera about contemporary women in America....Donizetti's opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor'....an opera singer...He was also learned in classical music with a great love of opera.soap opera

英英释义

noun

• a building where musical dramas are performed
  Synonym:opera house
• a drama set to music

双语例句

• He assumed a posture and began to sing a part in a Beijing opera.
  他拉开架子，唱起了京剧。
• Strauss spent much of 1941 scoring his last opera, Capriccio
  施特劳斯用了1941年的大部分时间为自己的最后一部歌剧《随想曲》编写总谱。
• The Opera House is decorated with the Hungarian national colours: green, red and white.
  歌剧院是以匈牙利国旗的颜色——绿、红、白三色装饰的。
• The following year she joined the Royal Opera House.
  次年她加入了皇家歌剧院。
• If you have never been to an opera, you haven't lived
  要是从来没看过歌剧，那就枉过此生了。
• This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation.
  这部歌剧是西方文明的文化标志物之一。
• After failing a singing audition at the Metropolitan Opera, she turned to musical comedy.
  在大都会歌剧院的试唱失败后，她转而投身歌舞喜剧。
• His father was an actor in the Cantonese Opera Company
  他的父亲是粤剧团的演员。
• At Opera North he will be in harness with Paul Daniel, the conductor appointed music director last year.
  在北方歌剧公司，他将和去年指挥指定的音乐总监保罗·丹尼尔通力合作。
• A shower of incendiaries struck the Opera House.
  燃烧弹密集落下，击中了歌剧院。