Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A professional singer who takes part in operas.

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Examples

  • 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.

    A Philadelphia Son Storms the Met Pia Catton 2011

  • 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.

    Top 50 operas 2011

  • The main protagonist is a tough cop who gets dragged into body guarding a Diva opera-singer who has had her life threatened.

    Well worth a read! Bob Lock 2008

  • I don't see either of you trouncing Opera Chic for her egregious and adolescent drooling over opera-singer hunks and their "packages."

    Getting It Wrong Lisa Hirsch 2008

  • The main protagonist is a tough cop who gets dragged into body guarding a Diva opera-singer who has had her life threatened.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Bob Lock 2008

  • With crazy good programming to back the vocal dexterity of Dana (the classically trained former opera-singer Aussie) and Ra's rhymes - Ra produced most of the album, but he's also joined by beatboxer Guy Licata, DJ Big Wiz (resident Def Jux DJ), and DJ Boo (Jugganots) - the album is intense.

    I Roll With It (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • With crazy good programming to back the vocal dexterity of Dana (the classically trained former opera-singer Aussie) and Ra's rhymes - Ra produced most of the album, but he's also joined by beatboxer Guy Licata, DJ Big Wiz (resident Def Jux DJ), and DJ Boo (Jugganots) - the album is intense.

    Music (For Robots): July 2005 Archives 2005

  • Then it's Day 2... there were a few more singers, including a nice opera-singer girl who gets through.

    "American Idol" goes to NYC. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Then it's Day 2... there were a few more singers, including a nice opera-singer girl who gets through.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Ann Althouse 2007

  • Never had Ursula measured as she did at that moment the distance which separated Vicomte de Portenduere from the daughter of a regimental musician, a former opera-singer and the natural son of an organist.

    Ursula 2006

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