melodrama

noun

1. (archaic, uncountable)A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
2. (countable)A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
3. (countable)A passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks.

   “The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.”

   “Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.”

4. (colloquial, figuratively, uncountable)Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.