1. recitative - Noun
2. recitative - Adjective
A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in a manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.
Of or pertaining to recitation; intended for musical recitation or declamation; in the style or manner of recitative.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAt one point in the opera, the rival divas Carmen Ghia and Donna Ribalda break character in the middle of a recitative to hold a conversation (still in recitative) about their singing careers. Source: Internet
In it, Verdi blurs the distinction between the aria and recitative as it never before was, leading the opera to be "an unending string of duets". Source: Internet
Rigoletto is one of, if not the earliest operas to abandon the traditional distinction between the sung aria, and the more speech-like recitative. Source: Internet
Luciani" is about Pope John Paul I. * Patti Smith 's recitative song "Wave" is about Luciani, and her Wave album is dedicated to him. Source: Internet
Even in the passages linking these "Grand Tunes", Puccini maintains a strong degree of lyricism and only rarely resorts to recitative. Source: Internet
In addition, he even seems to have striven for lively, antiphonal, unison recitative". Source: Internet