Operetta

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A theatrical production that has many of the musical elements of opera but is lighter and more popular in subject and style and contains spoken dialogue. Also called light opera.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A short, light, musical drama.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A short opera, generally of a light character and so belonging to the class of comic opera or opera bouffe.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a short amusing opera
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