monodrama
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- monodramatic adjective
- monodramatist noun
Etymology
Origin of monodrama
Example Sentences
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Sellars had long proposed the curious combining of Schoenberg’s “Erwartung,” a violently expressionist monodrama for soprano and large orchestra, with the last movement, “Abschied,” of Mahler’s song-symphony “Das Lied von der Erde.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025
The newly commissioned work that followed was Kate Soper’s “Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus,” a sensationally witty and profound monodrama about the meaning of music for amplified soprano and large orchestra.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025
The one-act monodrama by composer Tom Cipullo is based on the life of the legendary singer and dancer Josephine Baker.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022
Plenty of Schoenberg’s scores received hearings; difficulties rehearsing the monodrama “Erwartung” led Mitropoulos to ask Katsoyanis whether his compulsion for “distorted and screwy beauty” was just an “egotistical occupation” with “the pleasure of self-destruction.”
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2022
For some reason or other he was not fond of the theatre, but he was in possession of a considerable genius for monodrama, and often delighted his friends by his impersonations.
From George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by Wood, T. Martin
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