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popera
/ ˈpɒprə; ˈpɒpərə /
noun
- music drawing on opera or classical music and aiming for popular appeal
Word History and Origins
Origin of popera1
Example Sentences
At the outset of his career in 1998, his unique genre of songwriting was dubbed “popera” by a family friend — and his music does somehow encompass the catchy tune and the irrepressible rhythm of great pop within complex classical chord sequences and a Verdi-sized ambition.
It’s weird to hear this youthful gay icon — the Canadian American wunderkind who broke onto the scene in 1998 as the musical love child of Harry Nilsson and Franz Schubert, introducing an elegant style that a family friend dubbed “popera”; whose haunting cover of Cohen’s “Hallelujah” transcended its initial home on the “Shrek” soundtrack; who Elton John called “the best songwriter on the planet” — bemoaning his old age.
Miller-Heidke's song, Zero Gravity, infuses operatic style with a pop beat - some are calling it "popera" - but covers a dark subject: her post-natal depression after giving birth to son Ernie in 2016.
“Christmas Together” keeps the pealing prettiness and classical mash-ups, but in much larger formal arrangements that usually turn toward popera.
A virtuous maiden driven to murder and stalked through the night by a vengeful army, maternal love in extremis, a demon ghost and a handsome hero who, believing his One True Love is gone, has Married Another — these are just some of the elements that inform the locomotive plot of “Miss Saigon,” a creation of those mavens of grand popera Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.
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