A reporter beginning to turn up for music drama (5)
I believe the answer is:
opera
'drama' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'a reporter beginning to turn up for music' is the wordplay.
'beginning to' suggests taking the first letters.
'turn up' is a reversal indicator.
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'music' becomes 'ope' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'reporter' is 'r'.
'a'+'r'='ar'
'ar' back-to-front is 'ra'.
'ra' after 'ope' is 'OPERA'.
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" .)