What's the difference between burletta and operetta?

Burletta


Definition:

  • (a.) A comic operetta; a music farce.

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Operetta


Definition:

  • (n.) A short, light, musical drama.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He recently shared the Berlin stage – the Admiralspalast where Hitler once had a vast purpose-built box from which he would watch operetta – with Michael Mittermeier, a Bavarian comic with a considerable following in Germany.
  • (2) My intention is to champion this family and to inspire audiences night after night with a thrilling programme of musical diversity, attracting audiences from opera to operetta through to popular music.
  • (3) Eva Wiseman Candide – Leonard Bernstein As an opera, or an operetta or a musical, however you want to describe it, Candide has its problems.
  • (4) My teacher was about 108 and taught me to warble them like in an operetta, so when I first performed in the studio everyone was pissing themselves.
  • (5) But what’s original about his work is the fervor and fearlessness with which it borrows and recombines other genres and styles – pop, rock, jazz, operetta.
  • (6) Long, long fingers that were nearly always stained with engine oil from gadgets in the garden that he was trying to put right.” But, while Rodney wrote comic operettas (she quotes a scene from one set on a slow boat to India from memory for me), it was Molly who was the decisive musical influence on their son.
  • (7) And couldn't poor Brod see that in eliding Lehár's jolly and farcical operetta with Wagner's crushing toten lieder , Kafka manages in a single aside to undermine the entire airy and castellated edifice of late German romanticism?
  • (8) Egypt's military council, which has promised to surrender power to a democratically-elected president by the summer, envisaged this most emotive of anniversaries as a celebration, laying on air shows, firework displays and even a specially-commissioned operetta to mark the occasion.
  • (9) For Mann, the carefully crafted polycultural world of the hotel lobby – where the Poles speak French, the Italians dress in Parisian fashion, and the band plays selections from Hungarian operetta – is a fragile illusion.
  • (10) Hamilton is, as Alexis Soloski observed when she reviewed its earlier incarnation at the Public Theater, a combination of hip-hop, musical, operetta and poetry slam so surefooted and fast-paced it seems altogether new despite its name-dropping of a dozen other musicals and plays .
  • (11) Dickens, Kipling and Jerome K Jerome also appear to have shaped his writing, as did the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
  • (12) In an apparent attempt to dampen the energy of revolutionaries, the Supreme Council of Armed Forces has announced a series of official celebrations including military parades, air shows, a specially commissioned operetta and the distribution of prize coupons to citizens on the streets.
  • (13) In a previous episode he had heaped praise on Qatar, which allegedly finances the Muslim Brotherhood , with a chorus in the background singing "Save us from bankruptcy my dear Qatar" to the tune of Beloved Country, a famous Nasser-era operetta.
  • (14) The problem arose last month when a Beirut court banned the star from performing one of her classic operettas, Ya'ish, Ya'ish (Long Live, Long Live) because of a wrangle over royalties.

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