- Opera by Oliver Phillips
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- Melton, James by Mary Hale
... and in Berlin, making his opera debut in Cincinnati in 1938. His eight-year Metropolitan Opera career began in 1942, and he was also widely heard on the radio and in concerts. Beyond being one of the first American males to become a major opera star, he conveyed a "down-home" quality offstage that made grand opera seem more accessible to a new generation.
- Farrell, Eileen by Mary Parks
... sang with the San Francisco Opera, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in the 1960s with the Metropolitan Opera. Later she taught at colleges in Indiana and Maine. She liked her distinction as one of the few serious opera singers who also enjoyed success singing and recording popular and jazz music.
- ballad opera by Anna Peters
English 18th-century comic opera in which songs and musical interludes, usually consisting of existing popular tunes or opera melodies with new words, are interspersed with spoken dialogue. The first ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera (1728), by John Gay and J.C. Pepusch (1667–1752), was a sharply satirical work that became wildly popular and ...
- Macheath, Captain by Alexandria Washington
highwayman hero of the opera. [Br. Lit.: Beggar’s Opera. ] See: HighwaymenMacheath, Captain. Gambler and robber; has scores of illegitimate offspring. [Br. Opera: The Beggar’s Opera. ] See: Profligacy