number opera
Americannoun
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“Die Feen” is a number opera — far from the “endless melody” Wagner would describe in his 1860s essay “Music of the Future.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
To write a quintet was, for Wagner, to use a formal device from the operatic past – from number opera – that he had abandoned decades before, in the late 1840s.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2013
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