music drama

American  

noun

1. an opera having more or less continuous musical and dramatic activity without arias, recitatives, or ensembles.

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music drama British  

noun

1. an opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are of equal importance and strongly interfused

2. the genre of such operas

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Etymology

Origin of music drama

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

After receiving free arts training in Liverpool at Rare Studio, he secured a place at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.

From BBC

He received posthumous Bafta and Oscar nominations for his performances in 2020 blues music drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and won best actor prizes at the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards for the same role.

From BBC

Nixon, a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, said the series was filmed in Budapest and it felt like "a little Hungarian Welsh college reunion", as fellow cast members Arthur Hughes and Anthony Boyle also trained at the same institution.

From BBC

She said after realising “I can't have the dress, I'm not having the car”, the main thing for her was the venue, which she secured in Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

From BBC

“The Reef,” Davis’s latest music drama to arrive onstage and his follow-up to “The Central Park Five,” seems more fitting in that literary cohort.

From New York Times