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also opuses
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a literary, musical, or artistic production
the composer's final opus was performed posthumously to great acclaim
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Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past?
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Jennens, meanwhile, had no idea that Handel had, in a matter of about three weeks, fashioned the entire oratorio in his usual adroit way of recomposing airs from his own trove of Italian operas and bringing to life a bundle of new songs and choruses.
—Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
Given the limited sonic palette of Romance languages, Mobarak sought out to make an opera with the widest array of human vocal sounds by translating Dafne into some of the world’s most phonetically complex languages.
—Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024
The late justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ideological opposites, famously bonded over their love for opera — a friendship that inspired a comic opera in 2015.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
Jennens, meanwhile, had no idea that Handel had, in a matter of about three weeks, fashioned the entire oratorio in his usual adroit way of recomposing airs from his own trove of Italian operas and bringing to life a bundle of new songs and choruses.
—Bob Blaisdell, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2024
Given the limited sonic palette of Romance languages, Mobarak sought out to make an opera with the widest array of human vocal sounds by translating Dafne into some of the world’s most phonetically complex languages.
—Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024
The late justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ideological opposites, famously bonded over their love for opera — a friendship that inspired a comic opera in 2015.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Opera.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/opera. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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