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Vivacity of Bizet and Rossini in operatic overtures (4)

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I believe the answer is:

brio

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

'bizet and rossini in operatic overtures' is the wordplay.
'bizet' becomes 'b' (this might be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'overtures' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'rossini in operatic' is 'rio'.
'b'+'rio'='BRIO'

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for brio that I've seen before include "(Of music) spirit" , "Vivacity - spirit" , "Vigour (in music)" , "In music, con ..... means with dash and verve" , "Sparkle" .)

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