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A reporter beginning to turn up for music drama (5)

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I believe the answer is:

opera

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'music drama' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'a reporter beginning to turn up' is the wordplay.
'reporter beginning' becomes 'repo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to turn up' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'a'+'repo'='arepo'
'arepo' backwards is 'OPERA'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for opera that I've seen before include "Billy Budd, for instance" , "some theatrics" , "Carmen, perhaps" , "Carmen, for example" , "Eg, La traviata" .)

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