To that end, she will have singers move to match musical lines, beyond the usual stock operatic gestures, as a way of carving out what she calls "a musical landscape."

Ms. Dobish enters her character more compellingly, while Mr. Davis's seeming preoccupation with technique abandons Alfredo more or less to a collection of spastic operatic gestures.

The music is in a style the band calls "Opera-House", which they describe as "beat-driven electronica with grand, operatic gestures and lyrically-dense storytelling."

The figure lies on her back, her right arm flung across her neck and shoulder in an operatic gesture.

Deeply felt and carefully considered, Ms. Verrett's conception sometimes lapsed, however, into vocal gestures altogether too operatic for comfort.

In a characteristically operatic gesture, Mr. Eicher burst out of the control room, lifted her up, embraced her and led her in a dance.

At the same time, the firm produced illustrations of scenes from popular stage melodramas whose plots turned on grand, operatic gestures of self-sacrifice and salvation through love.

Randall would have no patience with operatic gestures.

The appalled Apollo makes an operatic gesture of horror over his muscular lover, while a satyr and a parrot (symbols of forbidden lust) stare sardonically down at the proceedings.

And when the Duke's men sing Verdi's choruses, they moved with standardized operatic gestures that could fit into any production of "Rigoletto" anywhere.