By contrast, the audience encounters an opera or a play over a specific time, which is the duration of the performance.

相反，观众可以有一段具体的时间来欣赏话剧或者戏剧，这段时间就是表演的持续时间。

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An opera singer, for example, neither dances nor speaks on stage; there are no singing or dancing parts in a modern play; in a dance drama, the dancer doesn't speak or sing.

例如，歌剧演唱家在舞台上既不跳舞也不说话；现代戏剧中并没有唱歌或跳舞的角色；在舞剧中，舞者既不说话也不唱歌。

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In 2007 he brought to Sydney André Previn's opera of Tennessee Williams's play, "A Streetcar Named Desire".

2007年，他将悉尼安德烈·普雷文（AndréPrevin）的田纳西·威廉姆斯（Tennessee Williams）戏剧“欲望号街车”的歌剧带到了悉尼。

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For example,the nineteenth century "Otello" by Giuseppe Verdi is an opera version of the tragic play "Othello."

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It was not like any other opera or musical play they had ever seen.

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John Malkovich frolics to the music of Mozart in "The Giacomo Variations, " a playful, frothy production which was envisioned as "a chamber opera play" by its creators.

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And the opera buffa will play on as before.

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That's how Edinburgh International Festival director Jonathan Mills summed up The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan, a version of the Shakespeare play performed by the Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe.

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