opera

C11877
concept

An opera is a staged dramatic work that combines a libretto (text) with a musical score, typically featuring vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, to tell a story through continuous or near-continuous music.

All labels observed (33)

Label Occurrences
opera canonical 333
comic opera 45
grand opera 17

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: opera
Generated description
An opera is a staged dramatic work that combines a libretto (text) with a musical score, typically featuring vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, to tell a story through continuous or near-continuous music.

Instances (427)

Instance Via concept surface
The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera by Otto Nicolai)
surface form: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai)
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un ballo in maschera"
surface form: Un ballo in maschera
Puccini's final opera
surface form: Turandot
La rondine
La Bohème
Madama Butterfly
Manon Lescaut
La fanciulla del West
Gianni Schicchi
Suor Angelica
Il tabarro
Le Villi
Amilcare Ponchielli
surface form: La Gioconda
Moses und Aron
La Cenerentola (opera by Gioachino Rossini)
surface form: La Cenerentola
Comic opera "Adelheit von Veltheim"
surface form: Adelheit von Veltheim
comic opera
Die tote Stadt
Das Wunder der Heliane
Violanta
William Tell
surface form: Guillaume Tell (opera)
Axur, re d'Ormus
Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle opera buffa
Prima la musica e poi le parole opera buffa
Europa riconosciuta opera seria
La grotta di Trofonio
opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss
surface form: Salome (opera)
Eugen d’Albert’s opera "Tiefland"
surface form: Tiefland
Champion (opera)
Fire Shut Up in My Bones (opera)
Le Rêve (opera)
Don Carlos (opera) by Giuseppe Verdi
surface form: Don Carlos
Nana (opera by Manfred Gurlitt)
opera "The Tempest" by Thomas Adès
surface form: The Tempest (Adès)
La voix humaine
Orphée et Eurydice
Carmen
Mireille
Sapho
La reine de Saba grand opera
Abesalom da Eteri
Latavra
Libuše
Daisi
The Bride of Abydos (opera by Isaac Albéniz)
surface form: The Bride of Abydos
Margaret Garner
Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky
surface form: Boris Godunov
The Golden Cockerel by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
surface form: The Golden Cockerel
Armen Tigranian
surface form: Opera Anoush
Der Rosenkavalier comic opera
Ariadne auf Naxos