Operafication
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The act or process of operafying. rare, uncountable
"Just as that dreary old debate over whether Porgy and Bess is or is not an opera began to fade away — and people decided they didn't give a darn what you call it just so long as they could see it - operafication got a renewed death grip on Broadway when musicals began dropping their books to survive, like so many needless barrels of fuel."
Example
More examples"Just as that dreary old debate over whether Porgy and Bess is or is not an opera began to fade away — and people decided they didn't give a darn what you call it just so long as they could see it - operafication got a renewed death grip on Broadway when musicals began dropping their books to survive, like so many needless barrels of fuel."
Etymology
From opera + -fication.
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