A stage light moves from an old beam to a new face, and a listener arrives before the story is finished. The bridge holds a breath and speaks slowly instead of recounting a long past. This theatrical setting identifies no particular traditional play.
Opera-pop here is a combined brief for theatrical vocal lines and a popular-song structure, not certification of a stage role or performer. Follow a sustained vowel and possible small turns at its ending. Timbre concerns character, not a rule that higher or louder means more theatrical.