“grand opera”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

grand opera

释义

grand opera
[See grand a. 8 b.]
Serious opera without spoken dialogue.
1803Lett. Miss Riversdale II. 317 A few nights of the Grand Opera..will bring you over to my opinion.1879Grove's Dict. Music, Grand Opera..The term—fast becoming obsolete—is French..and denotes a lyric drama in which spoken dialogue is excluded, and the business is carried on in melody or recitative throughout.1879[see opera 3].1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) III. 757/1 Grand Opera, a term with a definite meaning in French, unlike the English ‘grand opera’, which..is useless for classification, since it is loosely used to mean serious as distinct from comic opera.1967Listener 5 Oct. 443/1 She [sc. Melba]..bulldozed her initially reluctant countrymen into a fervid admiration for Grand Opera.1967Times 7 Oct. 12/8 After 12 years in opera—both light and grand—soprano Joyce Blackham is to appear in her first West End musical.

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