orchestra pit

Definitions

A sunken area in front of a stage in which musicians, largely hidden from view, play music to accompany stage performances.

Equivalents

Examples

“On the stage⟳ of the Gotham gloom reigned. . . . Johnson Miller was pacing the gangway between the orchestra pit and the first row of the orchestra chairs.”

“Thirty-four years ago a gaunt young Russian with a crew haircut took over the job as chief conductor in the orchestra pit of Moscow's Imperial Grand Theatre.”

“An audience member at the Metropolitan Opera sprinkled a powdery substance — what the police said may have⟳ been the ashes of his mentor — into the orchestra pit during an intermission of a performance on Saturday, setting off a police investigation and the cancellation of the rest⟳ of that opera.”

CEFR level