The phrase "operatic expression" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a style of expression that is dramatic, emotional, or theatrical, often associated with opera.
Example: "The singer's performance was filled with operatic expression, captivating the audience with every note."
Alternatives: "theatrical expression" or "dramatic expression."
The vocal writing moved from plainchant -- which Guillaume Du Fay alternated, in his "Vexilla regis prodeunt," with verses written in shimmering harmony -- through to a more florid, more operatic expression of emotion like Carlo Gesualdo's almost cinematic evocation of the Crucifixion in "Tenebrae factae sunt".
And while Janacek's First Quartet is wrapped in layers of text and subtext, being music based on literature based on music (Tolstoy's story "The Kreutzer Sonata"), it also cuts through to an almost operatic expression of the narrative, in which Janacek cannot have missed echoes of his own dire inability to express love in the real world.
There is an almost operatic quality in his facial expressions and bodily contortions; he has mastered what keepers call "making yourself big".
Oscar Hammerstein II rewrote the libretto of "Carmen," the quintessential opera-comique, and successfully brought it to Broadway as "Carmen Jones"; Mr. LaChiusa himself sees "The Magic Flute," a Singspiel generally regarded as among the highest and most profound expressions of the operatic ideal, as a "prototype" for the modern musical.
He drew on a full palette of dynamic and emotional expression, from soft falsettos to full operatic fortissimos that gave a spine-chilling climax to "Die Krähe" ("The Crow").
The acting consists of emblematic posing, mostly: facial expressions to denote huge emotions and operatic standoffs between characters singing arias at each other.
In Ms. O'Hara's hands Emile de Becque's great semi-operatic ballad, sung in the Lincoln Center production by Paulo Szot, became a more intimate expression of despair at having allowed love to slip through her fingers.
From the moment her name is announced, the proceedings are downright operatic; the art of the cinema is exemplified in the way her gloved hands hide her expression, in the breathtaking grandeur and drama of her smile, her rising, her stride, her slightly bowed head, her very accompaniment by her husband, Eddie Fisher.
November 3, 1801 Catania, Italy September 23, 1835 Puteaux, France Vincenzo Bellini, (born November 3, 1801, Catania, Sicily [Italy] died September 23 , 1835 Puteaux, near Paris, France) Italian operatic composer with a gift for creating vocal melody at once pure in style and sensuous in expression.
"Red" would be exciting enough as a piece of total theater that draws in Neil Austin's lighting and Adam Cork's sound design to push a potentially dry text toward moments of purposefully operatic frenzy, at other times drawing back to let the audience linger on the sad, infinitely haunted expression of Mr. Molina, who stills the house with his admission, "Silence is so accurate".
Those operatic high notes!
