How to Use opera house in a Sentence

opera house

noun
  • The rich used to build opera houses.
    — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The rich used to build opera houses.
    — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The stabbing took place a few blocks from an opera house in the city.
    — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 13 May 2018
  • All took their place in the opera house dressed up (and masked up) in black-tie attire.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Dress to the nines and head over the Palais Garnier opera house.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 14 Oct. 2020
  • And by the way, gave a lot of promo to opera houses and ballet.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This was the most unglamorous part of this majestic opera house.
    — Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
  • As for opera houses around the world, I have been blessed to sing for, and at so many!
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The opera house’s website lists a cast of about two dozen performers.
    — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 5 July 2018
  • Get into a car, and the stereo lobs you into the center of an opera house or a dance club.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The Bayview has an opera house and will soon have a chicken processing plant.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2018
  • For example, a plan is afoot for Oman to fund an opera house in Beirut.
    — The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Some Chinese cities can fill the halls of 15 opera houses in one evening.
    — Kishore Mahbubani, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2016
  • The fact that tickets for major matches cost more than the best seats in an opera house may help explain this.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • What's the history behind the Paris opera house?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026
  • The Sarasota Opera House didn’t start out as an opera house.
    — Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
  • There are also replicas of the Harmonist cabins, an opera house and lots of parks.
    — Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2019
  • Work has begun on the the country’s first opera house, Al Khateeb said.
    — Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The concierge will have tickets for whatever is playing at the famous opera house, across the street.
    — William Sertl, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
  • The holes in Lexington, though, are original to the opera house.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This is the part that has done the rounds on social media and left opera houses and ballet dancers a little fired up.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026
  • And so today that’s across theme parks, cruise ships, immersive venues, opera houses in at a global scale.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There, the city hosts artwork spread across its iconic squares and opera house, including artwork made via drone.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Enough of a downtown that an opera house—the local theater—was built here in 1885.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • It’s been 150 years since the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris opened.
    — Elliott Verdier, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • The heart of the opera house is the 1,400-seat Stavros Niarchos Hall.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
  • In the center of Stonington is the town’s opera house, built in 1912.
    — Howard Fishman, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • But a meat market, opera house, stores, a movie theater and the Menger Hotel were later built around it.
    — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2021
  • This elegant opera house hosts numerous events, mostly opera and ballet.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • East Fourth Street once was home to Cleveland’s opera house, central markets and five-and-dime stores.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022

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