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Meanings of operetta in English

Portuguese
opereta
Catalan
opereta

A short amusing opera.

        opereta
        Russian
        оперетта
        Portuguese
        operetta
        Spanish
        operetta
        Catalan
        operetes

        Opera genre.

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                Examples for "light opera"
                Examples for "light opera"
                1
                You could imagine an Oliver Callan performing them as light opera numbers.
                Independent.ie
                2
                Started with light opera, and was really the beginning of The Great White Way.
                The new yorker
                3
                They are like the ladies of the light opera stage.
                Witness for the Defence
                4
                She had taken a very minor part in light opera.
                Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 / Sexual Selection In...
                5
                Down the years, it has hosted grand and light opera, drama, variety and pantomime.
                The Irish Times
                Usage of operetta in English
                1
                They were wearing operetta uniforms that Mrs. Trump had ordered from London.
                The new yorker
                2
                She had been thrilled by a melodrama and pleased by an operetta.
                Celibates
                3
                He is very musical, and was much interested in hearing about the operetta.
                In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters
                4
                He gives the public the best operetta, the very best pantomime, excellent artists.
                Best Russian Short Stories
                5
                They once put on an operetta of his at the Court.
                Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel
                6
                A new operetta would be a diversion, and why should she not go?
                His Excellency the Minister
                7
                The operetta was laid in the time of Louis XV.
                In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters
                8
                It was the brightest place he had been since Gilbert and Sullivan's last operetta.
                The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
                9
                Viola had written her operetta, and it had been taken for a London theatre.
                Five Nights: A Novel
                10
                The Fledermaus is the famous Viennese Waltz King's best operetta.
                The Standard Operaglass / Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fift...
                11
                I give them the very best operetta, a dainty masque, first rate music-hall artists.
                The Darling and Other Stories
                12
                Alas, the book as a whole is more redolent of operetta than of opera.
                The Irish Times
                13
                We have had tragedy, shall we end with the opera or with the operetta?
                The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
                14
                Her operetta, "Die Räuber und die Sänger," was successfully produced at Vienna.
                Woman's Work in Music
                15
                He even attempted an operetta, "Don Sancho," which later had several performances.
                The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
                16
                At the very least this is one hell of a night at the operetta.
                The Irish Times
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                Portuguese
                operetaoperetta
                Operetta through the time
                Operetta across language varieties
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