opera

See also: Opera, operă, operá, ópera, operà, òpera, opéra, opěra, Opéra, operā, and operą

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/, /ˈɒp.ɹə/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.pɚ.ə/, /ˈɑ.pɹə/

  • Audio (US):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔp.ə.ɹə/, /ˈɔp.ɹə/

Etymology 1

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opera

Wikipedia

Borrowed from Italian opera. Doublet of oeuvre, opus, and ure.

Noun

opera (countable and uncountable, plural operas or opere)

1. (music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
2. (music) The score for such a work.
3. (music) The genre of such works, the art of composing operas.
5. A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

6. A company dedicated to performing such works.
7. (by extension) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.

Derived terms

• antiopera
• ballad opera
• Beijing opera
• Cantonese opera
• chamber opera
• Chinese opera
• comic opera
• fairy opera
• grand opera
• hip hopera
• horse opera
• hoss opera
• light opera
• lyric opera
• nonopera
• oat opera
• oil opera
• opera bouffe
• opera buffa
• opera cake
• opera cloak
• opéra comique
• operafication
• operafy
• opera glass
• opera glasses
• opera glove
• operagoer
• operagoing
• opera hat
• opera house
• opera house trap
• operalike
• operameter
• operaphile
• operaphobe
• opera seria
• opera singer
• opera slipper
• opera window
• operetta
• Peking opera
• popera
• poperetta
• rap opera
• rock opera
• Savoy opera
• soap opera
• space opera
• time opera

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to "opera"

• operable
• operand
• operant
• operate
• operatic
• operation
• operational
• operatist
• operative
• operatize
• operator
• opus

Translations

theatrical work

Afrikaans: opera Albanian: operë (sq) f Amharic: ኦፔራ (ʾopera) Arabic: أُوبِرَا f (ʔōbirā), أُوبِرَا f (ʔōbirā), أُوبِرَا f (ʔōpirā), أُوبِرَا f (ʔōpirā), أُوپِرَا f (ʔōpirā), أُوپِرَا f (ʔōpirā) Armenian: օպերա (hy) (ōpera) Azerbaijani: opera (az) Belarusian: о́пера f (ópjera), о́пэра f (ópera) (Taraškievica) Bengali: অপেরা (bn) (opera), গীতিনাট্য (bn) (gitinaṭṭo) Breton: c'hoarigan (br) Bulgarian: о́пера (bg) f (ópera) Burmese: အော်ပရာ (my) (aupa.ra) Buryat: дуури (duuri) Catalan: òpera (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 歌劇 / 歌剧 (go1 kek6) (Western style), 戲曲 / 戏曲 (hei3 kuk1) (Chinese opera) Hokkien: 歌劇 / 歌剧 (koa-kio̍k) (Western style), 戲曲 / 戏曲 (zh-min-nan) (hì-khiok) (Chinese opera) Mandarin: 歌劇 / 歌剧 (zh) (gējù) (Western opera), 戲曲 / 戏曲 (zh) (xìqǔ) (Chinese opera) Cornish: gwari kan m Czech: opera (cs) f Danish: opera (da) c Dutch: opera (nl) m Esperanto: opero Estonian: ooper Finnish: ooppera (fi) French: opéra (fr) m Galician: ópera (gl) f Georgian: ოპერა (oṗera) German: Oper (de) f Greek: όπερα (el) f (ópera) Hebrew: אוֹפֵּרָה (he) f (opera) Hindi: ओपेरा m (operā), गीतिनाटक m (gītināṭak), संगीत नाटक m (saṅgīt nāṭak), संगीत नाटिका f (saṅgīt nāṭikā) Hungarian: opera (hu) Icelandic: ópera f Indonesian: opera (id) Irish: ceoldráma m Italian: opera lirica f, opera (it) f Japanese: 歌劇 (ja) (かげき, kageki), オペラ (ja) (opera) Kannada: ಗೀತನಾಟಕ (kn) (gītanāṭaka), ಗೀತರೂಪಕ (kn) (gītarūpaka), ಗೇಯರೂಪಕ (kn) (gēyarūpaka), ಅಪೆರಾ (kn) (aperā) Kazakh: опера (opera) Khmer: សង្គីតនាដន៍ (sɑngkiitaʼniət), (ល្ខោន (-)~) អូប៉េរ៉ា (ʼoupeeraa) Korean: 오페라 (ko) (opera), 가극(歌劇) (ko) (gageuk) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: opera (ku) Kyrgyz: опера (opera) Lao: ໂອເປຣາ (lo) (ʼō pr), ອຸບປະລາກອນ (ʼup pa lā kǭn) Latvian: opera (lv) f Lithuanian: opera f Macedonian: опера f (opera) Malay: opera (ms) Maori: puoro whakaari Marathi: ओपेरा m (operā), ऑपेरा m (ŏperā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: дуурь (mn) (duurʹ), опер (oper) Norwegian: Bokmål: opera (no) m Pashto: اوپېرا f (opera) Persian: Iranian Persian: اُپِرا (operâ) Polish: opera (pl) f Portuguese: ópera (pt) f Romanian: operă (ro) f Russian: о́пера (ru) f (ópera) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̏пера f Roman: ȍpera (sh) f Sinhalese: ඔපෙරා (operā) Slovak: opera (sk) f Slovene: opera (sl) f Southern Altai: опера (opera) Spanish: ópera (es) f Swedish: opera (sv) c Tagalog: opera Tajik: опера (opera) Tamil: ஆப்பெரா (āpperā) Thai: อุปรากร (ù-bpà-raa-gɔɔn), โอเปร่า (oo-bpee-râa), ละครร้อง (lá-kɔɔn-rɔ́ɔng) Tibetan: གླུ་གར (glu gar) Tigrinya: ኦፔራ (ʾopera) Turkish: opera (tr) Turkmen: opera Ukrainian: о́пера f (ópera) Urdu: اوپیرا m (operā) Uyghur: ئوپېرا (opëra) Uzbek: opera (uz) Vietnamese: ca kịch (vi) (歌劇), nhạc kịch (vi) (樂劇) Volapük: lop (vo) Welsh: opera m Yakut: опера (opera) Yiddish: אָפּערע f (opere)

score

Armenian: օպերա (hy) (ōpera) Esperanto: opero Finnish: ooppera (fi) Galician: ópera (gl) f German: Oper (de) f Greek: όπερα (el) f (ópera) Hungarian: operapartitúra, operakotta Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: opera (ku) f Marathi: ओपेरा m (operā), ऑपेरा m (ŏperā) Polish: opera (pl) f Portuguese: ópera (pt) f Russian: о́пера (ru) f (ópera) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̏пера f Roman: ȍpera (sh) f Slovene: opera (sl) f

genre

French: opéra (fr) m German: Oper (de) f Irish: ceoldrámaíocht f Italian: opera (it) f Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: opera (ku) f

building — see also opera house

Armenian: օպերա (hy) (ōpera) Breton: c'hoarigandi (br) m Burmese: ဇာတ်ရုံ (my) (jatrum) Chinese: Mandarin: 歌劇院 / 歌剧院 (zh) (gējùyuàn) Esperanto: operejo, opera domo Finnish: oopperatalo (fi) German: Oper (de) f, Opernhaus (de) n Greek: όπερα (el) f (ópera) Hungarian: operaház (hu), opera (hu) Irish: teach ceoldráma m, áras ceoldrámaíochta m Italian: teatro d'opera m Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: opera (ku) f Latvian: opera (lv) f, operteātris m Marathi: ओपेरा m (operā), ऑपेरा m (ŏperā) Polish: opera (pl) f Portuguese: ópera (pt) f Russian: о́пера (ru) f (ópera) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̏пера f Roman: ȍpera (sh) f Slovene: opera (sl) f Swedish: opera (sv) c, operahus (sv) n Vietnamese: nhà hát (vi)

company

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can German: Oper (de) f Greek: όπερα (el) f (ópera) Hungarian: operaház (hu) Japanese: 歌劇団 (かげきだん, kagekidan) Korean: 가극단(歌劇團) (gageukdan) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: opera (ku) f Portuguese: ópera (pt) f Russian: о́пера (ru) f (ópera) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̏пера f Roman: ȍpera (sh) f Slovene: opera (sl) f

See also

• aria
• ballet
• masque
• melodrama
• musical comedy
• oratorio
• recitative
• singspiel
• Appendix:Glossary of opera

Etymology 2

From Latin opera, plural of opus.

Noun

opera

1. plural of opus; a collection of work.

Anagrams

• pareo

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

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Noun

opera (definite accusative operanı, plural operalar)

1. opera

Declension

Declension of opera

	singular	plural
nominative	opera	operalar
definite accusative	operanı	operaları
dative	operaya	operalara
locative	operada	operalarda
ablative	operadan	operalardan
definite genitive	operanın	operaların

Possessive forms of opera

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	operam	operalarım
sənin (“your”)	operan	operaların
onun (“his/her/its”)	operası	operaları
bizim (“our”)	operamız	operalarımız
sizin (“your”)	operanız	operalarınız
onların (“their”)	operası or operaları	operaları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	operamı	operalarımı
sənin (“your”)	operanı	operalarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	operasını	operalarını
bizim (“our”)	operamızı	operalarımızı
sizin (“your”)	operanızı	operalarınızı
onların (“their”)	operasını or operalarını	operalarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	operama	operalarıma
sənin (“your”)	operana	operalarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	operasına	operalarına
bizim (“our”)	operamıza	operalarımıza
sizin (“your”)	operanıza	operalarınıza
onların (“their”)	operasına or operalarına	operalarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	operamda	operalarımda
sənin (“your”)	operanda	operalarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	operasında	operalarında
bizim (“our”)	operamızda	operalarımızda
sizin (“your”)	operanızda	operalarınızda
onların (“their”)	operasında or operalarında	operalarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	operamdan	operalarımdan
sənin (“your”)	operandan	operalarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	operasından	operalarından
bizim (“our”)	operamızdan	operalarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	operanızdan	operalarınızdan
onların (“their”)	operasından or operalarından	operalarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	operamın	operalarımın
sənin (“your”)	operanın	operalarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	operasının	operalarının
bizim (“our”)	operamızın	operalarımızın
sizin (“your”)	operanızın	operalarınızın
onların (“their”)	operasının or operalarının	operalarının

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /opeɾa/ [o.pe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa, -a
• Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish ópera, from Italian opera.

Noun

opera inan

1. opera (theatrical work, score)
2. opera (score)
3. opera (building)

Declension

Declension of opera (inanimate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	opera	opera	operak
ergative	operak	operak	operek
dative	operari	operari	operei
genitive	operaren	operaren	operen
comitative	operarekin	operarekin	operekin
causative	operarengatik	operarengatik	operengatik
benefactive	operarentzat	operarentzat	operentzat
instrumental	operaz	operaz	operez
inessive	operatan	operan	operetan
locative	operatako	operako	operetako
allative	operatara	operara	operetara
terminative	operataraino	operaraino	operetaraino
directive	operatarantz	operarantz	operetarantz
destinative	operatarako	operarako	operetarako
ablative	operatatik	operatik	operetatik
partitive	operarik	—	—
prolative	operatzat	—	—

Etymology 2

Verb

opera

1. Short form of operatu (“to operate”).

Further reading

• “opera”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “opera”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

Verb

opera

1. inflection of operar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈopɛra]

Noun

opera f

1. opera

Declension

Declension of opera (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	opera	opery
genitive	opery	oper
dative	opeře	operám
accusative	operu	opery
vocative	opero	opery
locative	opeře	operách
instrumental	operou	operami

Related terms

• operní
• opus

Further reading

• “opera”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “opera”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “opera”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera, plural of opus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.pəˌraː/

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• Hyphenation: ope‧ra

Noun

opera f (plural opera's, diminutive operaatje n)

1. opera

Derived terms

• operacomponist
• rockopera
• operazanger
• operazangeres

Related terms

• oeuvre
• operette
• opus

Esperanto

Etymology

From opero (“opera”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈpera/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra

Adjective

opera (accusative singular operan, plural operaj, accusative plural operajn)

1. of or relating to opera