operetta
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Origin of operetta
1760–70; < Italian, diminutive of opera opera 1
Vocabulary lists containing operetta
Theater - High School
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By 1934, Lubitsch had left Paramount for MGM, where he directed one last musical with Chevalier and MacDonald, a loose but fizzy adaptation of Franz Lehár’s operetta “The Merry Widow.”
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
David attended Crane Country Day School in Montecito, Calif., where he starred in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta “H.M.S. Pinafore” and other musical productions, but he flunked out.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023
‘Salute to Vienna New Year’s Concert’ The Strauss Symphony of America and a cohort of singers and dancers perform classic waltzes and operetta selections by Johann Strauss II in this festive offering.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2022
Nor that the young Rousseau should put some of his earliest thoughts about society and the individual in an operetta about Columbus and the Indians.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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