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sung-through en · ADJ

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  1. (not-comparable) Being entirely sung; featuring no spoken dialogue (except for recitative).
    • Also known as “pop opera,” the sung-through musical is characterized by having little or no spoken dialogue. Instead, many of these musicals used a technique from traditional opera, called recitative. 2024 October 10, Jim Patterson, Tim Donahue, A Concise History of Theatre, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 271:
    • Equally, a sung-through musical can work as a musical theater. Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, for instance, has a story and characters that are absolutely made for its broad sweeping melodies and operatic form. 2003 October 30, David Walsh, Len Platt, Musical Theater and American Culture, Praeger:
    • Weber was not the only early-Romantic composer to write a sung-through German opera, but it was his that spurred Schumann and Wagner to aim higher. 2014 04, The New Yorker: