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What (who) is extravaganza - definition

LITERARY OR MUSICAL WORK CHARACTERIZED BY FREEDOM OF STYLE AND STRUCTURE

Extravaganzas

extravaganza

(extravaganzas)

An extravaganza is a very elaborate and expensive show or performance.

...a magnificent firework extravaganza.

...an all-night musical extravaganza.

= spectacular

N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp

Extravaganza

·noun An extravagant flight of sentiment or language.

II. Extravaganza ·noun A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; ·esp., a musical caricature.

extravaganza

[?k?strav?'ganz?, ?k-]

¦ noun an elaborate and spectacular entertainment.

Origin

C18 (in the sense 'extravagance in language or behaviour'): from Ital. estravaganza 'extravagance'.

Wikipedia

Extravaganza

An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure. It sometimes also has elements of cabaret, circus, revue, variety, vaudeville and mime. Extravaganza may more broadly refer to an elaborate, spectacular, and expensive theatrical production.

19th-century British dramatist, James Planché, was known for his extravaganzas. Planché defined the genre as "the whimsical treatment of a poetical subject."

The term is derived from the Italian word stravaganza, meaning extravagance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravaganza

Examples of use of extravaganza

1. At last provincial audiences will get a true rock extravaganza.

2. The glorious extravaganza is, of course, the Olympics.

3. The three–tenor extravaganza became a mini–industry.

4. John McCain (Ariz.), said the four–day extravaganza is excessive.

5. Extravaganza The weekend summit is the culmination of a week–long extravaganza of plenary sessions, back–room meetings and banquets attended by 10,000 officials, businessmen and journalists at Hanoi‘s new, German–designed $270 million convention centre.