melodrama

noun

1. 1

   A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.

2. 2

   A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks

   “the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".”

3. 3

   Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.