ballad opera
a theater entertainment of 18th-century England, consisting of popular tunes, folk songs, and dialogue.
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It may be regarded as a species of prototype of the burletta or ballad opera of later days.
A Book of Burlesque | Willam Davenport AdamsCharleston also claims the first performance of ballad opera on record in America .
Annals of Music in America | Henry Charles LaheeIt was one of the best examples of ballad-opera ever written.
A Short History of English Music | Ernest FordIn 1762 also was produced the ballad-opera Love in a Cottage.
Possibly from some old ballad opera, but more probably original.
Charles Dickens and Music | James T. Lightwood
British Dictionary definitions for ballad opera
an opera consisting of popular tunes to which appropriate words have been set, interspersed with spoken dialogue
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