What's the difference between burletta and operetta?
Burletta
Definition:
(a.) A comic operetta; a music farce.
Example Sentences:
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.