Example sentences for: opéra

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

  • Just to the northeast of the Opéra in rue de la Main d’Or, rue de Lappe, and their offshoots, clubs and discos have revived an old nightlife tradition.

  • Students find quiet corners to read, relax, or play tennis, and children sail their boats on the octagonal pond or ride a merry-go-round designed by none other than Charles Garnier, architect of the Opéra (see page 45).

  • Nowadays, popular cinemas have found an appropriate home on the boulevards, for it was at the Hôtel Scribe, near the Opéra, that the Lumière brothers staged the first public moving picture show in 1895.

  • Among world leaders today the few practitioners of this form of personal rule include Syria's Hafez al-Assad ("Assad" means "lion" in Arabic) and Turkmenistan's Turkmenbashi--"father of the Turkmens," the form of address favored by President Saparmurat Niyazov, the landlocked republic's opéra - bouffe strongman who has commissioned a stunted replica of the Eiffel Tower, with a revolving statue of himself on top, for the center of his capital city, Ashkhabad.

  • If you’re pining for English-language books, Village Voice on rue Princesse in St-Germain-des-Prés is outstanding, but try, too, Brentano’s at 37 avenue de l’Opéra, or W. H. Smith at 248 rue de Rivoli.


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