operetta
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of operetta
1760–70; < Italian, diminutive of opera opera 1
Vocabulary lists containing operetta
Theater - High School
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But Lubitsch envisioned, as no one else did, what might come of marrying sound films with a modified form of operetta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The singer sported a Union Jack jester's hat for the traditional performance of Rule, Britannia! and blew kisses to the audience while singing Ruperto Chapí's tongue-twisting comic operetta Las Hijas Del Zebedeo.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
A grand operetta on the vagaries of romantic love, “A Little Night Music” is no small undertaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2023
But mostly when aiming for drollery, the songwriters overshoot and wind up at operetta.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
You have not lived until you’ve heard a Megan Thee Stallion track remixed into an operetta.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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