operaphile

plural operaphiles

1. One who enthusiastically enjoys opera.

   Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more. .

   1986, “Quarterly Quiz: I Heard It At The Movies”, in The opera quarterly, volume 4, numbers 1-2

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   For an operaphile, this meaning derives from the subjectivity of the resonance between vocal jouissance and the unconscious, that is, the preverbal bond with the mother, separation and individuation from this first Other, and the acquisition of language and meaning.

   2014, Dominic Symonds, Millie Taylor, Gestures of Music Theater: The Performativity of Song and Dance, →ISBN

   Although Costa retained his contacts with the royal family, Gye was able to develop his own close relationship with the operaphile Prince of Wales, for whose mistress Pauline Lucca he occasionally rescheduled the programme.

   2016, John Goulden, Michael Costa: England's First Conductor, →ISBN