Like the earlier plays of the trilogy, it has been turned into operatic form, but has not entered the general opera repertoire.

Terzian never saw his play on stage either in its operatic form or as a straight play.

Toward the end of his artistic life he was moving still farther away from traditional set pieces and ever closer to a more complex, integrated operatic form.

This was a fully operatic form that included ballet as a prominent feature of the performance.

"Ghosts" sometimes deliberately trashes the audience and the operatic form.

Berg decided against the use of the classic operatic forms such as aria or trio for this opera.

For years, he toyed with expanding his sketch to full operatic form.

"There are certain almost operatic forms you have to go through," says a senior Romney adviser.

This version restored the work to a more operatic form, though not all of the recitatives were retained.

Unlike some other operatic forms, there were spoken interludes, often in verse.