Opera, a drama set to music and acted and sung to the accompaniment of a full orchestra, of which there are several kinds according as they are grave, comic, or romantic.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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Abelard, Peter
Accolti, Bernard
Acron, Helenius
Arne, Thomas Augustine
Bachaumont, Louis Petit De
Balbi, John
Baluze, Stephen
Barrow, Isaac [No. 3]
Baxter, William
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