He knew the repertoire, and his works abound in operatic references.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

In a second, tremendous picture, Domingo sits in operatic darkness; his eyes, with a tragic gleam, are the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julian Schnabel's Polaroids: 'Smoke and mirrors and happy accident'] Reference

What might be described as operatic tendencies in the music of worship date further back than the foundation of Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference

Sung in a child's imitation of an 'operatic' voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Culture in a Low Place | clusterflock] Reference

Carmencanada, "operatic" is a perfect way to describe Nahema!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roses in 3-D: Annick Goutal Ce Soir Ou Jamais] Reference

It is the same heightened pathos, the same "operatic" quality, which gives its name to both Space Opera and Soap Opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

And our first four previews in New York of this dark new dark kind of operatic thing, people liked it so much they walked out.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2003] Reference

"the term operatic ... implies an opening outwards, a kind of escape from the boundaries of ordinary literary discourse" (70).    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

But its story, ultimately, feels like a Lifetime-channel script made "operatic" through the addition of some over-the-top moments.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Amelia" at the Seattle Opera] Reference

The enlarged, 'operatic' scope of the third of these songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

He adds he wants the story to become more "operatic" as it evolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [WalesOnline - Home] Reference

The Medes and Persians, on the other hand, looked wilder and more "operatic" than at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden] Reference

It's a celebrity phone-in talent show in which various some-time chart-botherers attempt to sing in an "operatic" style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

I played flute in the orchestra for his past 3 operas, and treasure the experience of being a part of his 'operatic' family.    From Wordnik.com.  [fresnobeehive.com] Reference

I'm fighting not to employ the much over-used "operatic" as a description, but this is historical drama as Wagner would tell it.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

Used here, though, it's no compliment-like the waiter's greasy hair and "operatic" hand gestures, it's a derisive symbol of Italianness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diner's Journal] Reference

We shall have some kind of operatic performance, you may be sure. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II] Reference

And Sorvino launches into an operatic Nixon routine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hollywood's Most Controversial Director Oliver Stone Takes On Our Most Controversial President Richard Nixon] Reference

A character piece with Scorsese's operatic visual style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movies: Neil Burger] Reference

Italian political culture has long had an operatic streak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italy's 59Th Post-War Try] Reference

Whatever their secrets, the muses 'lives tended to be operatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tops Of 2002: Books] Reference

Mercifully, this operatic touch was dropped from the final film.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whose Obsession Is It, Anyway?] Reference

Sometimes she would sing a pop song on the radio in an operatic way.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWSMAKERS] Reference

Grand and operatic, it went on, with its 1974 sequel, to win nine Oscars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Thy Family] Reference

Swales, a self-taught but respected scholar, gave the feud its operatic drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Sigmund] Reference

It's not clear what this operatic quality is meant to tap into in Shaw's play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie] Reference

At the conclusion of the first, grand operatic chorus, my daughter stepped forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I've Missed With My Camcorder] Reference

Or was it just one more melodrama in a career that's reached soap operatic proportions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serious George Is Back] Reference

Kentridge's drawings, on their own, are full-blown art: meaty, nuanced, operatic and bold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gray Matter] Reference

An operatic version of "" Romeo and Juliet '' played eerily and endlessly over stereo speakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Suspected School Shooter Up Close] Reference

Most fall unheard and unreported, but look closely and you will see their operatic death throes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flight Of The Dot-Coms] Reference

Conservatory-trained experts quickly discovered they were living in a nation of operatic naturals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Singing The Classics] Reference

For the City Opera has a history almost as operatic -- there's no other word for it -- as Monroe's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Nights At The Opera] Reference

The artist mixes her operatic singing skills with Billie Holiday-style vocals, periodic raps, and '70s soul-sister vibes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music For The Soul] Reference

Luhrmann's team auditioned 2,000 singers -- almost all with formal operatic training -- to find 10 who could both sing and act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baz Is Broadway Bound] Reference