Example sentences for: operas

How can you use “operas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If Wagner's operas can be excerpted for concert performance, and Stravinsky's ballet scores have a life of their own, why can't the soundtrack jettison its celluloid ballast and soar?

  • It is not Bartoli's voice but the operas themselves that are too small for houses like the Met--or rather, the Met is too big for all but the grandest of grand opera.

  • Our favorite soap operas seem to be about dynasties; generations handing down traditions of abuse and debauchery of various kinds.

  • There are more than 700 works on display here, including not only paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs but also sheet music, music playing in the stairwells, clips from movies, movie posters, novels, furniture, design objects, architectural models, and stills from dance programs, plays, operas, and musicals.

  • Vacations were spent by the sea or in the mountains; people listened to soothing operas like Puccini’s La Bohème and Madame Butterfly; the first silent-movies of The Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis were made; one could partake in intellectual conversations in open air cafés at the hour of the passeggiata.


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