0 in a way that relates to or is similar to opera (= a type of musical play in which most of the words are sung):
This was some of the most operatically ambitious music ever composed for Broadway.
The operatically trained soloists clearly pronounced their lyrics.
A 'higher' (and more operatically normative) mode of expression has been made unavailable to her.
She is known not only for her performances in operas and as a classical recitalist as well as for her recordings of operatically-styled crossover music.
The first part of the novel ends (operatically) in death.
He achieves this through an operatically conceived vocal line: high and sustained, and encompassing a range of an octave and a fifth.
He later dies an operatically staged heroic death, playing the organ in a church to guide his comrades, thus diverting the enemy to himself.
