No, there’s no singing involved.

To answer that question, let’s go back in time…to a simpler time when the wild west Americana motif was giving way to the atomic age, and little housewives were pacified after their morning chores were completed by living vicariously through the drama brought into their living rooms via soap operas…

Writers of westerns started to jump on the space aged band wagon, setting their stories in space. Since these adventure stories had a greater focus on characters and interpersonal drama than the genre had previously enjoyed someone, who was very resistant to change, tried to cast shade on this budding art form by dubbing them “space opera” in an uncomplimentary context. Thus the space opera entered the public context around the ~1940’s when the primary mediums were serial magazines, and radio dramas.

Over the next two decades, as the youths who had grown up on intrepid space yarns, took up the creative baton, we saw more development…works like Star Trek, Doctor Who, and later Star Wars launched space operas into the mainstream, as the former insult was donned as a badge of honour.