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/mjˈuzɪkəl drˈɑmə/ Listen

Musical drama

noun

Opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action.

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Etymology of 'Musical drama'

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"Musical drama" Quotes from Famous Books

... remarkable clearness, and the music invests them with a sense and distinctness of convincing force as an inseparable whole, such as had not been previously known in opera. It may be said that with the "Flying Dutchman" a new operatic era began, or rather the attainment of its dimly conceived destiny as a musical drama. It also expresses the mental activity of the time and the longing for a new world, which was to redeem mankind and secure for us an existence worthy of ourselves. It still appears to us as the native land, encircling us with its ...

— Life of Wagner - Biographies of Musicians • Louis Nohl

... with flowers, appears a woman of unearthly loveliness. It is Kundry transformed, and in the marvelous duet which follows between her and Parsifal, a perfectly new and original type of love duet is struck out—an analysis of character, unique in musical drama—a combination of sentiment and a situation absolutely novel, which could only have been conceived and carried out by a creative genius of ...

— Parsifal - Story and Analysis of Wagner's Great Opera • H. R. Haweis

Words linked to "Musical drama" : opera