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
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Fortunio comic opera
Le Toréador opéra comique
Le Postillon de Lonjumeau comic opera
La Belle Hélène comic opera
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein comic opera
La Périchole comic opera
David Alagna
surface form: Le dernier jour d’un condamné
The Pearl Fishers
Opera "The Mines of Sulphur"
surface form: The Mines of Sulphur
Les pêcheurs de perles
La jolie fille de Perth
Don Procopio comic opera
Djamileh
La maison du docteur comic opera
Le docteur Miracle comic opera
Il barbiere di Siviglia
L’italiana in Algeri opera buffa
La Cenerentola opera buffa
Il turco in Italia
Semiramide opera seria
Tancredi opera seria
Mosè in Egitto
Manon
Fromental Halévy
surface form: La Juive
grand opera
Orphée aux enfers opéra bouffon
Der Corregidor comic opera
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera) chamber opera
Cold Mountain
The Shining (opera)
Lucia di Lammermoor
The Pirate (opera by Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee)
surface form: The Pirate
Julietta
The Greek Passion
Puccini operas
surface form: Le Villi
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s opera Sir John in Love
surface form: Sir John in Love
Hugh the Drover, or Love in the Stocks
Otello (opera)
surface form: Otello
opera The Legend
surface form: The Legend
Konstantin Shilovsky
surface form: opera "Eugene Onegin"
Mathis der Maler
Die Harmonie der Welt
Treulich geführt
surface form: Lohengrin
Ring cycle opera cycle
Demon
surface form: Demon (opera)
Ivan the Terrible (opera)
Nero (opera)
The Maccabees (opera)
Feramors (opera)
surface form: Feramors
The Merchant Kalashnikov (opera)