Definition of "opera house" []

• A theater designed chiefly for the performance of operas. (noun)

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• "Located at 254 West Fifty-fourth Street in Manhattan, “the Studio,” as it was called, was originally an opera house and eventually became a CBS studio."
• "Roman and & reek statesmen and philosophers now embellish this opera house of Western democracy, and in symbolic irony the quadrigae fiy from one another in all four directions above the two houses, in this way giving the best external expres sion of the activities that went on inside the building."
• "You sense echoes of the old prosperity here and in the bulky pale-green opera house with its cracked walls."