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Definition of semi-opera in English: semi-operanoun A drama or similar entertainment with a substantial proportion of vocal music in addition to instrumental movements. Purcell's four highly successful semi-operas Example sentencesExamples - This was the first semi-opera written from scratch, with more than a dozen musical episodes and using a huge orchestra.
- After the Restoration the masque transferred to the professional theatre, where its tradition continued in Purcell's semi-operas.
- His Psyche of 1675 is an important forerunner of the semi-operas later taken up by Purcell and others.
- None of these were strictly semi-operas, but the spoken word continued to exert a strong influence.
- Pioneering began with the introduction of English semi-operas into the repertories of colonial theatres.
Definition of semi-opera in US English: semi-operanounˌsemˌī- A drama or similar entertainment with a substantial proportion of vocal music in addition to instrumental movements. Example sentencesExamples - This was the first semi-opera written from scratch, with more than a dozen musical episodes and using a huge orchestra.
- None of these were strictly semi-operas, but the spoken word continued to exert a strong influence.
- After the Restoration the masque transferred to the professional theatre, where its tradition continued in Purcell's semi-operas.
- His Psyche of 1675 is an important forerunner of the semi-operas later taken up by Purcell and others.
- Pioneering began with the introduction of English semi-operas into the repertories of colonial theatres.
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