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Grand opera

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Noun
  1. 1
    A genre of 19th-century opera characterized by large-scale casts and orchestras, and lavish and spectacular design and stage effects, normally with plots based on or around dramatic historic events.

    "Clearly, Hitler saw his historical function as a Wagnerian grand opera. Vast cosmic changes required an accompaniment of slaughter on a colossal scale."

  2. 2
    opera in which all the text is sung wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French grand opéra.

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