Denis co-wrote the script of "Let the Sunshine In" with the novelist Christine Angot; it's filled with sharply revealing and loftily aria-like dialogue, and Denis invents a form that seems to frame the discourse as if the images were a sort of operatic music.
Mr. Christie echoes the anonymous author of "A Critical Discourse on Opera's and Musick in England," an account of London's operatic life from 1705 to 1709.
There is a kind of European theatre, quite distinct from anything produced in this country, that combines torrents of words and philosophical discourse with rich but heavy visuals to produce evenings that have an almost operatic quality.
He cut a large chunk out of Jerry's dying speech in "The Zoo Story" some thirty years after he wrote the play, for instance, feeling that a man discoursing for several pages with a knife in his chest was too operatic for his taste at that point.
Those operatic high notes!
They're operatic, almost".
Politics was murderous, operatic, improvisational.
