Example sentences for: operas

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

  • British composer known for his song cycles, such as Les Illuminations (1939), and operas, including Peter Grimes (1945) and Death in Venice (1973).

  • This aspect of language should not be construed solely as a demonstration of knowledge (as in knowing how many symphonies Beethoven wrote, whether Caruso was a tenor or a bass, or being able to hum melodies from Puccini's operas), though that is certainly a reflex of a cultured individual.

  • If a work is "about" "abandon, irrationality, and ecstatic release," but its execution displays "measure, reason, and control" --one might place any number of baroque operas in this category, for instance, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, for that matter.

  • 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.

  • (Tidbits: Thurgood Marshall spent his days watching soap operas; Justices O'Connor and Kennedy are known as intellectual midgets.)


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