A reporter beginning to turn to Aida, for example (5)
I believe the answer is:
opera
'to aida for example' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'a reporter beginning to turn' is the wordplay.
'reporter beginning' becomes 'repo' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to turn' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'a'+'repo'='arepo'
'arepo' back-to-front is 'OPERA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for opera that I've seen before include "Stage entertainment" , "Die Meistersinger is one" , "Grand or comic work?" , "Carmen, perhaps" , "La Boheme or Rigoletto" .)