How to Use grand opera in a Sentence

grand opera

noun
  • What did Hitler learn from all those hours spent at the grand opera house?
    — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The Dallas Opera’s return to grand opera comes after two tough years.
    — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Vocalized joy poems bend genres and arias of longing evoke a grand opera thrust into the multiverse.
    — Risa Sarachan, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • When the company was first formed, there was much talk about whether Los Angeles had an appetite for grand opera.
    — Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • And for dessert, a grand opera cake, which the program describes as having espresso cream, almond sponge and buttercream chocolate ganache.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Because absolutely my job was to tell the kind of grand opera of the big story of Elvis, the Colonel, Priscilla.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • In Germany, the decor, the spectacular use of great masses of people—the central myth itself was borrowed from grand opera.
    — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Her silky mezzo voice had the heft to parody grand opera, and her divinely expressive face carried over-the-top theatrics with no self-consciousness.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
  • Dalhart moved to New York City in 1907, hoping to pursue a career as a grand opera vocalist.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
  • There were moments when his powerful voice proved too much for the arena’s amplification system more suited to broadcasting scores for sporting events or a circus than grand opera.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 20 June 2019
  • Then again, not much opera was actually presented in these grand opera houses, rather Gilbert and Sullivan, music revues of all sorts and straight theater.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
  • The main thoroughfare, Emad al-Din Street, boasted a grand opera house, expensive hotels, and innumerable dance halls, bars and cafés.
    — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • His voice is sort of a rest cure from the truck-driver singing of grand opera, with superb diction and natural vocal elegance that should be an excellent fit with Schubert’s great song cycle.
    — Bethany Ao, Philly.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • McCormic was a protege of the marvelous Mary Garden, who was resurrecting a grand opera company out of financial ruin.
    — Celia Storey, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Abels transcribed her threads and wove them into grand opera, drawing inspiration from classical Americana, gospel music and Arabic modalities alike.
    — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • From regional theaters to Broadway, and from local orchestras to grand opera houses, performing arts organizations are reporting persistent — and worrisome — drops in attendance.
    — New York Times, 21 Aug. 2022
  • From the late 1920s, professional wrestling had an uneasy relationship with the auditorium, muscling in between other presentations of grand opera, graduations, Boy Scout pow-wows, educational lectures and other more elevated events.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 5 Sep. 2020

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