opera house

noun

: a theater devoted principally to the performance of operas
broadly : theater

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Charles and Queen Camilla arrived Friday evening local time in Sydney, where a tribute on the sails of the city’s iconic opera house displayed a four-minute montage of images from previous royal visits. Hannah Peart, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2024 Today’s opera houses continue to build on that model and, at times, subvert it. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024 That movement is further helped by the spate of cultural attractions that have opened in recent years, from the city’s national museum to the Munch art collection and the stylish national library and opera house. Mark Faithfull, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible. Elisabetta Povoledo Alessandro Penso, New York Times, 13 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for opera house 

Word History

First Known Use

1720, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of opera house was in 1720

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“Opera house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opera%20house. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.

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