operaphile

English

Etymology

opera +‎ -phile

Noun

operaphile (plural operaphiles)

1. One who enthusiastically enjoys opera.
   • 1986, “Quarterly Quiz: I Heard It At The Movies”, in The opera quarterly, volume 4, numbers 1-2:

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

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

     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.

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