operafication en · NOUN
Etymology
From opera + -fication.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The act or process of operafying.
Just as that dreary old debate over whether Porgy and Bess is or is not an opera began to fade away — and people decided they didn't give a darn what you call it just so long as they could see it - operafication got a renewed death grip on Broadway when musicals began dropping their books to survive, like so many needless barrels of fuel.
1991, Theater Week, volume 4, page 32: