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Definition of Opera house
1. Noun. A building where musical dramas are performed.
Definition of Opera house
1. Noun. A theatre, or similar building, primarily used for staging opera. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opera House
Literary usage of Opera house
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"PIKE'S opera house IT will, no doubt, surprise many even among the theatre-goers
of the West Side to learn that the magnificent theatre at Twenty-third ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1827)
"The Court therefore would not upon motion appoint a Manager, &c. of the Opera
House, except upon the principle, applicable to any other partnership, ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1904)
"corporation having a lien against the prop- j the opera house company, had received
the erty subsequent to that upon which the ; whole of said sum, ..."
4. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"In 1888 he built the Harlem opera house, and followed it with the Columbus Theatre,
... In 1906 he built the second and better-known Manhattan opera house, ..."
5. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"Since then all the first singers in Europe have appeared here, but the prestige
of the opera house was destroyed when Mario, Grisi, Persiani and Tamburini ..."
6. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... this Winter, Carnival being come or just coming, Friedrich opens his New
Opera-House, for behoof of the cultivated Berlin classes; a fine Edifice, ..."
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