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opera house

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opera house
n.
A theater designed chiefly for the performance of operas.
opera house
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a theatre designed for opera
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Noun1.opera houseopera house - a building where musical dramas are performed
opera
theater, theatre, house - a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full"
Translations
opera house n → teatro lirico or dell'opera, opera
opera house n → teatro lirico or dell'opera, opera


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Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances "above the Forties," of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy.
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In the Opera House a crowd had gathered to see a show and further down Main Street the fiddlers, their instruments tuned, sweated and worked to keep the feet of youth flying over a dance floor.
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I'm smothered if the opera house isn't your proper hemisphere.
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