Operetta meaning

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A theatrical production that has many of the musical elements of opera but is lighter and more popular in subject and style and contains spoken dialogue.
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A light, comic opera with spoken dialogue.
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Origin of operetta

  • Italian diminutive of opera opera opera1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from Italian operetta.

    From Wiktionary

Operetta Sentence Examples

  • In 1752 he brought out at Fontainebleau an operetta, the Devin du village, which was successful.

  • This young company produced an operetta each summer holiday and raised more than £ 6,000 for charity.

  • Or rather, the universe itself is one. ' In 1892, Holst wrote a two act operetta entitled Lansdown Castle.

  • Chris Monks returns with the latest classic operetta to be given the special New Vic treatment.

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