opera house
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- /ˈɑːpərə haʊs/
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teatro de la ópera
- The famous performance of "La Traviata" will take place at the opera house this weekend.
- a new opera house
And he says, do you know the way to the Opera House?
- And he says, do you know the way to the Opera House?
- But when the narration is gone, I went and watched it at the Opera House theater.
- But in her mind, she said, Ronk and I was dancing in Budapest Opera House.
- What what year was it where the the the finale was at the Opera House?
- We are seeing people mass around the Sydney Opera House screaming gas the Jews, gas the Jews.
- It became the famous market and developed into Covent Garden, which the great Opera House of Covent Garden.
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Perhaps as the general manager or artistic administrator of a noted opera house.
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I toured inside the opera house and learned the history of the building.
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I have seen it myself in all the famous opera houses of the world.
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It's playing at the Manhattan opera house.
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Did you know the opera house is featuring Don Giovanni?
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Later that evening, at a rally held at the opera house, a capacity crowd listened to numerous speeches, including one by Sam Jones.
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The Met is, beyond contention, one of the world's important opera houses.
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And there's a concert, a piano concert, next week at the old opera house.
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I really love the use of wood in Scandinavian architecture, and in the opera house, its use is spectacular.
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I like the idea of having an opera house where I can go and see Wagner, Verdi, and Puccini.
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The meaning 'a building for performing operas' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'opera' (the musical/dramatic performance) with 'house' (a building), following a common noun‑noun compound pattern in English. This compositional logic is cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would reliably infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Opera house names a building that is literally a house for opera. The simple image of a 'house' where people go to watch and hear musical drama explains why it means 'a theatre for operas and other musical performances'.