1716 D. Ryder 27 Mar. (1939) (modernized text) 207 And some time after a Frenchman came in who sung some of the French opera songs in concert with our two flutes and the bass.
1874 ‘G. Eliot’ IV. xxxviii. 280 ‘Oh, he's a dangerous young sprig, that Mr Ladislaw,’ said Mrs Cadwallader, ‘with his opera songs and ready tongue’.
1989 J. Casey (1990) 30 He'd do guinea opera songs.