A reporter beginning to turn up for music drama (5)
I believe the answer is:
opera
'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.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for opera that I've seen before include "Billy Budd, for instance" , "some theatrics" , "Carmen, perhaps" , "Carmen, for example" , "Eg, La traviata" .)