grand opera
noun
: opera in which the plot is serious or tragic and the entire text is set to music
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web From plays about Anne Frank and Atticus Finch, and from grand opera to camp comedy: There’s a bit of everything on San Diego’s fall theater schedule. 
San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022 From regional theaters to Broadway, and from local orchestras to grand opera houses, performing arts organizations are reporting persistent — and worrisome — drops in attendance. New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022 The lushly cast production, which opened Saturday at the San Diego Civic Theatre, is French grand opera at its finest, with gorgeous singing and music, a large chorus, stunning scenery, lavish costumes, sword-fighting and even ballet dancing. San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022 Paris Opera extends across the city in two grand opera houses: the historic Palais Garnier and its main theater, the modern Opéra Bastille. Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021 The main thoroughfare, Emad al-Din Street, boasted a grand opera house, expensive hotels, and innumerable dance halls, bars and cafés. Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021 Bruce Eggler, a New Orleans journalist who over a half-century career covered subjects ranging from grand opera to media criticism to the minutiae of city government, died Wednesday in his apartment in New Orleans’ Riverbend neighborhood. John Pope, NOLA.com, 9 Sep. 2020 From the late 1920s, professional wrestling had an uneasy relationship with the auditorium, muscling in between other presentations of grand opera, graduations, Boy Scout pow-wows, educational lectures and other more elevated events. Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 5 Sep. 2020 Even more revealing was the response of my wife, who loves grand opera but isn’t a full-fledged buff and had never previously shown any special interest in Maria Callas. Terry Teachout, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018 See More
San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022 From regional theaters to Broadway, and from local orchestras to grand opera houses, performing arts organizations are reporting persistent — and worrisome — drops in attendance. New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022 The lushly cast production, which opened Saturday at the San Diego Civic Theatre, is French grand opera at its finest, with gorgeous singing and music, a large chorus, stunning scenery, lavish costumes, sword-fighting and even ballet dancing. San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022 Paris Opera extends across the city in two grand opera houses: the historic Palais Garnier and its main theater, the modern Opéra Bastille. Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021 The main thoroughfare, Emad al-Din Street, boasted a grand opera house, expensive hotels, and innumerable dance halls, bars and cafés. Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021 Bruce Eggler, a New Orleans journalist who over a half-century career covered subjects ranging from grand opera to media criticism to the minutiae of city government, died Wednesday in his apartment in New Orleans’ Riverbend neighborhood. John Pope, NOLA.com, 9 Sep. 2020 From the late 1920s, professional wrestling had an uneasy relationship with the auditorium, muscling in between other presentations of grand opera, graduations, Boy Scout pow-wows, educational lectures and other more elevated events. Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 5 Sep. 2020 Even more revealing was the response of my wife, who loves grand opera but isn’t a full-fledged buff and had never previously shown any special interest in Maria Callas. Terry Teachout, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018 See More Word History
First Known Use
1720, in the meaning defined above