Operatically

Notable too, if only for historical interest, was a sonata by Donizetti in which, not surprisingly, an operatically shaped flute line is set over a dramatic piano accompaniment.

There Agnes operatically ponders (“I hear footsteps, awful coming footsteps”; “I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate”), poeticizing even her wounds, the bruises “blossoming like star clusters under the skin.”