How to Use opera house in a Sentence

opera house

noun
  • The opera house was closed, along with Dairyville, in 2019.
    oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Dress to the nines and head over the Palais Garnier opera house.
    Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Oviedo has an opera house and a full program to fill it.
    Chiara Goia, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
  • All took their place in the opera house dressed up (and masked up) in black-tie attire.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In the center of Stonington is the town’s opera house, built in 1912.
    Howard Fishman, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
  • For example, a plan is afoot for Oman to fund an opera house in Beirut.
    The Economist, 15 June 2019
  • Dress to the nines and head over the Palais Garnier opera house, just like Emily did in season 1.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 16 Dec. 2022
  • First stop: Sydney, Australia to see the New Year's fireworks over the opera house.
    Adiel Kaplan, miamiherald, 3 July 2018
  • Enough of a downtown that an opera house—the local theater—was built here in 1885.
    Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • In 2018, the kingdom announced that it is set to open its first opera house in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The opera house’s website lists a cast of about two dozen performers.
    Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 5 July 2018
  • The holes in Lexington, though, are original to the opera house.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2021
  • This was the most unglamorous part of this majestic opera house.
    Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
  • There, guests will head out for a day trip to Iguazú Falls and get to take a private behind-the-scenes tour of Buenos Aires' opera house.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 25 May 2021
  • The opera house across the street, which itself seats twenty-four hundred, has been reserved for the press.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 26 June 2019
  • The Parisian opera house that inspired Phantom of the Opera also became an Airbnb for one night.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • There are also replicas of the Harmonist cabins, an opera house and lots of parks.
    Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2019
  • Instead of playing to a concert hall packed full of people, the UceLi Quartet played to a crowd of 2,292 plants in the opera house.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 23 June 2020
  • At the end of the eight-minute concert, the sound of leaves and branches blowing in the breeze rustled through the opera house almost like applause.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 23 June 2020
  • East Fourth Street once was home to Cleveland’s opera house, central markets and five-and-dime stores.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The concierge will have tickets for whatever is playing at the famous opera house, across the street.
    William Sertl, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
  • But a meat market, opera house, stores, a movie theater and the Menger Hotel were later built around it.
    Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2021
  • By the late 1980s, the Met Orchestra was considered among the top opera house ensembles in the world.
    New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • One by one, the candidates made their way across the street, to a twenty-four-hundred-seat opera house, where the press waited: the spin room.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 27 June 2019
  • The first is the town’s 125-year-old opera house with a stately clock tower that informs residents of the time from all four sides.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 17 June 2023
  • At the end of the eight-minute concert, the sound of leaves and branches blowing in the wind resonated throughout the opera house like applause.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2020
  • For John Jones, the fact that a racist opera house was the only place to hear Lohengrin didn’t mean that the opera itself was tainted.
    Adam Kirsch, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The shuttered opera house casts a big shadow over whatever the Goodspeed tries to do this year.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 15 June 2021
  • Meander along the sloping streets to one of the oldest opera houses in Spain, Teatre Principal de Maó, built in 1829.
    Yasmin Fahr, New York Times, 16 May 2024
  • Most notably, the saloon and pool hall on the corner (in the background of the postcard) featured an opera house and dance hall upstairs, funded in part by donations from other local merchants.
    Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024

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