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There is little point in doing that when a quick check on the Internet could have set your mind at rest that your magnum opus really was yours .

如果在互联网上快速搜索一下就可以放心地发现自己的大作的确实至名归，那么那种做法也就没有什么意义了。

This magnum opus took ten years to complete .

这部巨著历时十年始告成。

The opera was the place to see and be seen .

歌剧院是个名流和时尚人士竞显风采的地方。

She 's one of the leading lights in the opera world .

她是歌剧界的一位大腕。

The story has all the elements of a soap opera .

这个故事是非常典型的肥皂剧题材。

I didn 't use to like opera but my husband has converted me .

我过去不喜欢歌剧，但我丈夫改变了我。

I like all kinds of music from opera to reggae .

我喜欢各种音乐，从歌剧到雷盖都喜欢。

I quite like opera .

我很喜欢歌剧。

The opera twins the themes of love and death .

这出歌剧把爱与死的主题紧密结合在一起。

Mozart composed his last opera shortly before he died .

莫扎特在创作出他最后一部歌剧后不久便去世了。

No composer was considered worthy of the name until he had written an opera .

作曲家直到写出一部歌剧来才被认为是名副其实。

Which opera did Verdi write first ?

威尔第最早写的是哪一部歌剧？

She pretends to be interested in opera , but it 's only for show .

她做出一副对歌剧感兴趣的样子，但这不过是装门面而已。

Opera houses are packed out wherever she sings .

每逢她演唱，任何歌剧院都场场爆满。

The opera is vintage Rossini .

这部歌剧是罗西尼的最佳代表作。

He was also learned in classical music with a great love of opera .

他还是个酷爱歌剧的古典音乐专家。

The following year she joined the Royal Opera House .

次年她加入了皇家歌剧院。

I love opera and last year I got tickets for Covent Garden

我喜爱歌剧，去年我搞到几张科芬园皇家歌剧院的票。

The opera lacks the polish of his later work .

这部歌剧不及他晚期作品娴熟。

If you have never been to an opera , you haven 't lived

要是从来没看过歌剧，那就枉过此生了。

Putting on an opera is a tremendous enterprise involving literally hundreds of people

上演一台歌剧是一项浩大的工程，说要涉及数以百计的人真是一点都不夸张。

A small colour television was tuned to an afternoon soap opera .

一台小彩色电视机频道调在了一出下午的肥皂剧上。

Most people are familiar with this figure from Wagner 's opera .

多数人都熟悉瓦格纳歌剧中的这一人物。

His father was an actor in the Cantonese Opera Company

他的父亲是粤剧团的演员。

This opera is one of the cultural totems of Western civilisation .

这部歌剧是西方文明的文化标志物之一。

Dennis had recently begun a successful career conducting opera .

丹尼斯最近开始从事歌剧指挥的工作，并且非常成功。

Fine music , particularly opera , has become aspirational , like fine wine or foreign travel .

高雅音乐，特别是歌剧，就像佳酿或出境游一样受到志存高远者的青睐。

He was orchestrating the second act of his opera .

他在为自己那部歌剧的第二幕谱写管弦乐曲。

The British public 's wariness of opera is an anomaly in Europe .

英国公众对歌剧不大轻易接受的态度在欧洲来说很反常。

Young conductors earn their spurs in a small orchestra or opera house .

年轻的指挥家们在小乐队或小歌剧院里崭露头角。