opera, n.Definitions

The Opera is a place where when a guy gets stabbed, he doesn't die, he sings.

Opera is a genre representative of the fact that anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

Opera is a prime example of the production of presence, in which the aspect of spatiality must be emphasized over that of temporality.

Opera is a play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

The Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Opera is a humanizing art, one that emphasizes what humanity has in common by epic depictions of passion through the vehicle of song.

Opera is an attempt at resolution of the conflict between the demands of music for self-fulfillment and the needs of text for projection and amplification.

Opera is an interlinear version of its libretto, which is to say, a musical commentary on what goes on between the interstices of a dialogue, on what the actual text has not in itself realized.