high intonation

For most people poetry is like opera: something beautiful being sung with high intonation, but whether someone is to be betrothed or someone is being entombed, none know.

high notes

He only wanted to sing the arias.

operative emotion

Some enjoy American musicals with their transparent songs of love, joy and loss. Others prefer operas for, even as those foreign words wash over them on the level of sense, the sounds fill them with emotion.