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‖ scena|ˈʃena|
[It., ad. L. scēna scene.]
1. a. A scene in an Italian opera; the words and music of the scene. b. A composition consisting largely of recitative of a dramatic and impassioned character, for one or more voices with accompaniment; either forming part of an opera, or composed separately for the concert-room.
1819T. Hope Anast. (1820) III. 323 This gentleman..wondered he should have inspired me..with the scenas of a pastoral. 1825[see scene 5 d]. 1842Lytton Zanoni i. iii, The applause with which they had hailed the overture and the commencing scenas. 1845Athenæum 22 Feb. 204 A beautiful scena by Romberg. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxxii, My lady's piano was..covered with scattered sheets of music and exquisitely-bound collections of scenas and fantasias. 1886Mrs. Craik King Arthur vi. 232 She placed the trio before him. It was one of those dashing operatic scenas of the last generation, full of show and difficulty.
2. Used jocularly = scene 11.
1847J. G. Lockhart in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxv. 103, I hear there was a very hot little scena at a late Carlton Club dinner between Stanley and Lord George Bentinck. |