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- Opera
- n. 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.
The actor apes a man — at least in shape;
The opera performer apes and ape.