"Melodrama" is a word in ENGLISH
Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment
to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in
romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical
accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive
accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the
gravedigging scene of Beethoven's \"Fidelio\".
We decided to leave early, you wouldn't want to be there in the end, when the lights came on. You'd never sit down in here again. In a depressing shuffle we pushed to the door, now it was good to get up and out, while it was still a black hole, warm, and smokey, full of possibilities...
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A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting …
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