0 a musical play in which most of the words are sung, or plays and music of this type:
1 a formal play in which all or most of the words are sung, or this type of play generally
If this first opera of the season is a herald of what is to come, we can expect great things.
The Almeida theatre's recent staging of the opera had critics foaming at the mouth.
Why is opera so inaccessible to so many people?
