an opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are of equal importance and strongly interfused the genre of such operas
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mu′sic dra′ma,
- Music and Dancean opera having more or less continuous musical and dramatic activity without arias, recitatives, or ensembles. Cf. number opera.
- 1875–80
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'music drama' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
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- Wagner
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- leitmotif
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- performance art