operafication

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

opera +‎ -fication

Noun[edit]

operafication (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The act or process of operafying.
    • 1991, Theater Week, volume 4, page 32:
      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.