cnn opera
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "To understand the CNN opera, you have to go back to 1976, when the Robert Wilson/Philip Glass avant-garde extravaganza Einstein on the Beach — not a newsy opera, but a fact-based one — suddenly, surprisingly, filled the vast spaces of the Metropolitan Opera House[…]"
- "What has been termed "CNN Opera" continues apace, probably on the theory that if operagoers can connect a work to history, they may either buy tickets to it or enjoy it more once in the theater."
- "The leader sings lyrics like "I'm the leader of the free-love world" and "I believe in women's rights – they all have the right to be loved by me." The taste of CNN opera pervades the text, to be sure."
- "[The Death of Klinghoffer], the quintessential CNN opera, based on the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists, created a mild stir among those who perceived it as insufficiently hard on terrorism and more than a bit unfriendly to Jews."
- "Several years ago, at the world congress of the International Federation for Theatre Research in Amsterdam (2002) I gave a presentation on CNN operas in the course of which I parenthetically mentioned the phenomenon of television opera."
Etymology
From the suggestion that such operas are essentially just a report from news channel CNN in musical form. Coined by American opera critic Peter G. Davis in 1995.