Converse of object

• compose: Kids Op - see how you can compose an opera over the internet.

• sing: Octavia was the ostrich who just walked around looking beautiful and singing opera.

Adjective modifier

• comic: Strauss thought the libretto ' The born comic opera - more suited to music than either Figaro or The Barber of Seville ' .

• Taiwanese: Taiwanese opera was a major form of entertainment in early Taiwan society.

• grand: In the early 1900's touring companies came to offer drama, music & grand opera.

• long-running: Her agent heard about a casting call going out for a role on the long-running Australian soap opera, Neighbors.

• Italian: Fortunato is no standard hero out of 18th century Italian opera.

• satirical: Mozart's satirical opera is staged by ENO in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Modifies a noun

• singer: How do you come up with the idea of throwing a balloon like female opera singer through walls?

• libretto: All translations, except where taken from opera libretti, are my own.

• diva: Picture 2: Journalist Sarah Kirkup interviews opera diva Lesley Garrett at the Classical BRIT Awards, London, May 2006.

• buffa: Certainly, I do not think the Agatha Christie would lend itself to treatment as a modern opera buffa!

• gala: Other projects have included numerous opera galas as well as concert performances of operas by Britten, Rossini, Verdi and Puccini.

• house: BA also houses the world's largest opera house, the Colon Theater.

Preposition: by

• composer: The themes on which the march is based come from an opera by the Italian composer Mercadante who died at Naples in 1870.

Noun used with modifier

• soap: The Archers is the world's longest running soap opera.

• one-act: GHOST STORY, one-act opera originally a BBC commission.

• baroque: Sunday Independent, Ireland, May 26 1996 " Welsh mezzo Buddug Verona James whose voice and temperament seem ideal for baroque opera.

• chamber: Having called for proposals for chamber operas, we received 210 applications from all over the world.

• rock: The rest of the album is given over to the rock opera ' Sorrow & Promise ' .