Noun
opera in which all the text is sung
Source: WordNetI tell you, it is easier to build a grand opera or a city center than to build a personal house. Alvar Aalto
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is grand opera. Judith Martin
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a 'grand passion' than of a grand opera. Israel Zangwill
The pages of Euclid are like the opening bars of the music of the Grand Opera of Nature's great drama. So to say, they lift the veil and show to our vision a glimpse of a vast world of natural knowledge awaiting study. C. V. Raman
Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. John Philip Sousa
Ainger, pp. 265, 270 Although it was not a grand opera, The Yeomen of the Guard (1888) provided him with the opportunity to compose his most ambitious stage work to date. Source: Internet