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- noun An
opera (dramatical production) that deliberately avoids the typicalconventions of the opera.
Etymologies
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anti- + opera
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Examples
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At first blush, "The Threepenny Opera," Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's scrappy, satirical antiopera of 1928, wouldn't seem like a match for the cool, abstract theatrical style of Robert Wilson.
Waging Underclass Warfare Heidi Waleson 2011
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