It does not ruin the operatic plot to reveal that the children decided they cannot change the world, just set their own destiny.

In general, the play burlesques the absurdity of operatic plots, as well as the most inexplicable habits of contemporary tragedy.

I don't think we should have a problem with (effectively) modernising an operatic plot ...

The screenplay, attributed to five writers, attempts to blend a grand operatic plot with psychological intrigue, but does not manage either.

I am in full accord with the recent revulsion against directorial excesses - the rewriting of operatic plots, the "contemporary interpretations," the meaningless elaborations.

This is an unabashed melodrama with a kind of operatic, baroque plot.

In one of Binchy's stronger books, she explores the roles of women in Irish society, inconstant lovers and uses an operatic plot to hold a reader's attention.

Along the way, from one town to another, he got into sexual escapades resembling operatic plots.

This is really a cantata scenica rather than a fully developed operatic plot.