"It may elevate adolescent passion to operatic dimensions, and that's certainly silly, but it's hard not to marvel at the skill behind this grandly silly, irresistible album."

It's the 'operatic dimension.'

Musicals became less literate and more obvious, and stars like John Raitt, who had a burnished baritone voice of operatic dimensions, became marginalized.

Pop singers have consistently sought to attain a symphonic or operatic dimension in their writing and performance.

Let 'Em Eat Cake' has operatic dimensions.

It's like war reportage raised to operatic dimension.

- and builds to operatic dimensions, replete with religious and apocalyptic language.

The operatic dimension of the film was further emphasised by the casting of the bass Ruggero Raimondi in the role of Forbek (though he does not sing).

As New York food fights go, the conflict does not appear to have the operatic dimensions of the quarrels that split the Zabar, Balducci and Manganaro families.

I can only hope that Mr. Wainwright, whose songs I love, will not lose his musical identity in boosting his compositional voice to operatic dimensions.