music drama
an opera having more or less continuous musical and dramatic activity without arias, recitatives, or ensembles.
Origin of music drama
1- Compare number opera.
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How to use music drama in a sentence
"Washington," the new American music-drama, was given for the second time, with the same cast as before.
Bizarre | Lawton MackallAll the essays on music and on drama and on the music-drama are as much an expression of himself as his music-dramas.
Richard Wagner | John F. RuncimanThe opening chapter, which gives the famous picture of the Heath, is like an overture to a great music-drama.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsThis unpretentious spot of Italian soil was to prove the cradle of the revolutioniser of Italy's national music-drama.
Verdi: Man and Musician | Frederick James CrowestThe new music drama, combining as it does principles from all the arts is all-demanding of its interpreters.
The Merry-Go-Round | Carl Van Vechten
British Dictionary definitions for music drama
an opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are of equal importance and strongly interfused
the genre of such operas
Origin of music drama
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