musical dramatization AmE , auch: musical dramatisation BrE

In a way he was simply presenting musical dramatizations of key scenes and characters.

But what drew Verdi to the play was its scenes of confrontation, which were ideal for musical dramatization.

The musical dramatization of this work premiered at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg on 16 March 2005.

His album "Ramayana" is a musical dramatization of the epic, drawing on ragas and kritis to portray the various episodes.

"King," a musical dramatization about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has been in the works three years.

The commissioned premiere, "Spring Saga," is described by Ms. Walton as "a musical dramatization of the Biblical story of Ruth, arranged for women's voices, harp, cello and narrator."

"The Raven" is an artistic and literary transformation of Reed's 2003 album of the same name, a musical dramatization of the tales and poetry of Edgar Allan Poe.

Out the window goes any concern for Prokofiev's musical dramatization of the difficulty of Tchelio's summons, having to do with his need for the demon, and the demon's remoteness and independent-mindedness.

It's a musical dramatization of the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., written by John Briley, scored by Richard Blackford.

A criticism of his songs that has managed to stick is that in comparison with Schubert's miraculous subtleties, Loewe is too literal, that his songs are mere musical dramatizations of the texts.

"A SHOW OF HANDS," a musical dramatization of young people who begin the play as strangers and adversaries and end up finding common bonds related to issues like alcoholic parents, dysfunctional families and sexuality.

In 2000 she returned to theater in "The Life of Padmasambhava", a musical dramatization of one of the most revered characters in Buddhism, produced by the San Francisco-based Namsay Dorje Theater Company.

'MAGNIFICENT CLARA' "The Magnificent Clara," a musical dramatization of Clara Schumann's adult life, may be seen at the New Rochelle Public Library today at 2:30 P.M.

Wagner worked 25 years composing 'Der Ring des Nibelungen,' a massive four-part musical dramatization drawn from the Teutonic mythology of gods, giants, dwarves and Rhine maidens; Shaw considered it a work of genius and reviewed it in detail.

"This is just right for me, because much of my work in music has involved bringing history to life," she said recently, "whether musical dramatizations of historic legends of the American Blackfoot Indians, of the ancient Chinese, of Eastern Europe, or the beauty of the historic Shenandoah River in Virginia.