Spanish producer of English opera in south Central America (5)
I believe the answer is:
senor
'spanish producer' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'english opera in south central america' is the wordplay.
'english opera' becomes 'eno' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'south' becomes 's' (abbreviation).
'central' says to take the centre.
The middle letter of 'america' is 'r'.
's'+'r'='sr'
'eno' going into 'sr' is 'SENOR'.
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for senor that I've seen before include "way of addressing Figaro, say" , "Spanish for Mr" , "Spanish chap" , "Snore (anag.)" , "A Spanish mister" .)