11.   Like his contemporary Puccini, Giordano counted on great singers steeped in the Italian vocal tradition to carry his musical dramas.

12.   Most classical-music fans readily admit that some film composers are masters of tone painting and musical drama.

13.   Mussorgsky turned his compressed musical drama into a grandly expansive Romantic opera.

14.   The first thing the company did was contact the original donors who helped begin the musical drama.

15.   This movie started out six years ago as a relatively serious historical musical drama.

16.   This is musical drama at its peak.

17.   Using the resonant Orpheus myth, Gluck would return opera to a neo-classical ideal as elevated musical drama.

18.   With a compact scenario by Richard Plant and an effective libretto by Kenward Elmslie, it holds the stage as musical drama.

19.   With this in mind, Thakolkiat drew on his television talent and experience to produce a musical drama with a plot closely resembling a typical TV soap.