music drama

noun

1. an opera having more or less continuous musical and dramatic activity without arias, recitatives, or ensembles.

music drama

noun

1. an opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are of equal importance and strongly interfused

2. the genre of such operas

Word History and Origins

Origin of music drama¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Word History and Origins

Origin of music drama¹

C19: translation of German Musikdrama, coined by Wagner to describe his later operas

Example Sentences

After receiving free arts training in Liverpool at Rare Studio, he secured a place at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

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He received posthumous Bafta and Oscar nominations for his performances in 2020 blues music drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and won best actor prizes at the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for the same role.

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Nixon, a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, said the series was filmed in Budapest and it felt like "a little Hungarian Welsh college reunion", as fellow cast members Arthur Hughes and Anthony Boyle also trained at the same institution.

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She said after realising “I can't have the dress, I'm not having the car”, the main thing for her was the venue, which she secured in Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

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“The Reef,” Davis’s latest music drama to arrive onstage and his follow-up to “The Central Park Five,” seems more fitting in that literary cohort.

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