オペラ
OPERA(おぺら)[/ˈoʊp(ə)rə/]名詞
解説
付記
俳優は人間を真似る— 少なくとも形の上では。 オペラの役者は猿を真似る。
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Original
A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word simulation is from simia, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model Simia audibilis (or Pithecanthropos stentor)—the ape that howls.
Additional notes
The actor apes a man—at least in shape; The opera performer apes an ape.