Melodrama



noun
1.
(play full of suspense in a sensational and emotional style, any sensational, highly emotional action, utterance, etc) រឿងកំសត់
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".