adjective
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of or relating to opera
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histrionic or exaggerated
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Etymology
Origin of operatic
Example Sentences
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Playing out on an operatic scale, and featuring a revelatory posthumous performance from Heath Ledger as the Joker, the film grossed over a billion dollars worldwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The way now we hear a great deal of operatic repertory is the way he had always heard it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Bocelli would return to Mar-a-Lago for an early-2024 “charity” event, however, and Trump would keep playing his operatic renditions at his campaign stops.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
She went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music, and made her operatic debut and breakthrough role as a last minute stand-in as the character Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1975.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
If, for Italians, the supreme expression of their love of music was the emotionally charged operatic aria, for Russians it was dance.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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