關於Opera的意思和用法的提問

A: 26-10-2022 is a date
26 day of the 10th Month of the year 2022.


This opera production can provide excellent entertainment
(is correct)

to your sentiment.(does not make sense)

perhaps instead
for your enjoyment.


This opera production can provide excellent entertainment for your enjoyment.

A: @nb1 No, you need the definite article "the"

When you are expressing movement towards a place, you need the definite article.

I like opera, but l am going to the opera tonight

I like Iranian cinema, but l am going to the cinema tonight

A: It is a type of musical style. Examples are: Pirates of Penzance, Marriage of Figaro, Carmen

A: same thing. They are interchangeable

A: Ticket scalpers are ticket flippers. They both buy a ticket at a low rate and try to sell it for a higher rate.

A: a moveable/moving work of art

A: The first one is more commonly used, while the second is a sort of fancy way to say it and not often used. Both are correct though

A: 請到提問詳情頁確認

A: plural, in the same way as "trousers". you would use plural verb forms, so "the opera glasses *are* on the seat", but like with trousers, you would never say "there are two opera glasses" to refer to the one thing, but, like trousers, you might say "there is a pair of opera glasses" (or just "there are opera glasses").

to refer to them when they are "properly" plural, you could use the actual numbers e.g. "there are two opera glasses" = "there are two *pairs* of opera glasses", but using "pairs of" sounds nicer and clearer

A: × Because opera does, after all, start with a man and a woman, and an emotion.
✓ Because opera does, after all, start with a man and a woman. And there is, of course, also the accompaniment of emotion.

A: In this context: It was their intention that the operas performed should be Italian

A: × The Phantom of the Opera is a well-know opera and it's also my favorite one.
✓ The Phantom of the Opera is a well known opera and it's also my favorite.

A: Yes it makes perfect sense!