| 单词 | the opera |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe opera b. Such works as a genre. Usually the opera. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > opera as branch of drama opera1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) While the English and French Comic and Tragic Theatres were forming, the Venetians invented the Opera. 1744 Suppl. to Dr. Harris's Dict. Arts & Sci. at Opera The Italian Writers are at a great deal of Pains to settle the precise Time in which the Opera began. 1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 24 Nov. 248 Some years ago the Italian opera was the only fashionable amusement among our nobility. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 201 Venice was the Place where the Opera first appeared in Splendor. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music IV. 18 This [sc. the end of 16th cent.] seems the true æra whence the opera, or drama, wholly set to Music..should be dated. 1881 S. Baring-Gould Germany ix. 249 It is in the Opera and the Oratorio that the most flourishing descendants of the old Mystery Plays are to be met with. 1884 G. A. Macfarren in Encycl. Brit. XVII. 87/2 The masques performed at Whitehall and at the Inns of Court were of the nature of opera. 1909 Daily Chron. 19 Jan. 4/7 In France the opera was the outcome of the ballet, and in England of the masque. 1931 J. Joyce Let. 3 Jan. (1957) 298 The wealthy musicophiles in London and New York who control the destinies of opera in those cities. 1993 High Life (Brit. Airways) Oct. 27/1 Melbourn actually likes going to the theatre and listening to the opera. < as lemmas |
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