Melodrama

Love is a comedy in France, a tragedy in England, an opera in Italy, and a melodrama in Germany.

The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.

Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.