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operetta::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | light opera |
| Type of | bouffe, comic opera, opera bouffe, opera comique |
Examples of operetta
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It is drenched in an operetta-styled nondistinctive score that drowns the story.
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Hoomes notes that this 1924 operetta places considerable demands on the singers.
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The Opernhaus, the principal venue for opera, ballet, and operetta performances.
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Ida is the eponymous heroine of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Princess Ida.
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Fans of the Victor Herbert operetta should steer clear of this 1986 adaptation.
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The theatre experienced a golden age during the flourishing of Viennese operetta.
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I think I have done my best, and this is a concrete connection to the operetta.
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Adored for its score, the 1956 operetta has a sketchy production track record.
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However, this formula had been used in Viennese operetta, such as The Merry Widow.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A short amusing opera
- Operetta (Italian, plural: operette) is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.
- A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue
- A lighter version of opera in subject and musical style.
- In its modern form (c1850s onward), a light opera containing interludes of spoken dialogue and dance.
- Light-hearted musical entertainment containing dance, spoken dialogue, practical jokes, and mistaken identities. Operettas were especially popular in the late 19th century.
- A nineteenth-century type of light (often comic) opera, employing spoken dialogue in between musical numbers.
- Britannica.com says: "musical-dramatic production similar in structure to an opera but characteristically having a romantically sentimental plot interspersed with songs, orchestral music, and rather elaborate dancing.... ...
- Operetta is light opera, a development largely of the 19th century, exemplified in the work of Offenbach in France and Johann Strauss the younger in Vienna.
