Definition of "opera-singer" [opera-singer]

• A professional singer who takes part in operas. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Giacomo Puccini Rome, Italy, 1900Dubbed a "shabby little shocker", Tosca opens with three crashing orchestral chords and never lets up until the opera-singer heroine, having stabbed the villain Scarpia and watched her artist-lover Cavaradossi die, leaps to her own death."
• "Based now in Tennessee with his opera-singer wife, Ailyn Perez, Mr. Costello comes to New York often for continued study with his voice teacher."
• "The main protagonist is a tough cop who gets dragged into body guarding a Diva opera-singer who has had her life threatened."