The portion of an original song for the April Rhodes musical sung by April and Will, "Nice to Meet You, Have I Slept with You?", received little commentary, though Flandez made specific mention of "her operatic range, and their charismatic stage presence".
As a terminal nostalgist, I still hold a candle for the commentaries of the Big Match's Brian Moore, the operatic swoop of whose voice transmitted the excitement of a game like no other.
Rent (1996) was unique in adapting an operatic repertoire and, as with Urinetown (2001), in employing the musical for social commentary.
Goethe's play, which contains an array of epic, lyric, dramatic, operatic, and balletic elements, ranges through various poetic metres and styles to present an immensely varied cultural commentary that draws upon theology, mythology, philosophy, political economy, science, aesthetics, music, and literature.
Other relatively recent high-profile cases of financial malfeasance, like Michael R. Milken's manipulation of junk bonds or the failure of Lincoln Savings & Loan under Charles H. Keating Jr., generated headlines and plenty of commentary, but there was never a sense that the average person cared that much, beyond the soap-operatic pleasure of following the doings of the rich and unscrupulous.
What is operatic singing?
Those operatic high notes!
They're operatic, almost".
