OPERA

A composition ot a dramatic kind, set to music and sung, accompanied with musical instrument.s, and enriched with appropriate costumes, scenery, etc. '.!.'he house in which operas are represented is termed an "opera-house." Rowland v. Kleber, 1 Pittsb. R. (Pa.) 7L OPERARII, Such tenant.s, under feudal tenures, as held some little portions of land by the duty of performing bodily labor and servile works for their lord. [s. 861]