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operetta

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for operetta.

Editorial note

The problem is these COD operetta heroes with a death wish due to no future voted in a warchieftain who does not deliver and they get antsy.

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Quick take

(music) A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue. [from 18th c.]

Meaning at a glance

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noun

(music) A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue. [from 18th c.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for operetta.

noun

(music) A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue. [from 18th c.]

Example sentences

1

The problem is these COD operetta heroes with a death wish due to no future voted in a warchieftain who does not deliver and they get antsy.

2

A cacophony of unknown tongues ricocheted, a grotesque operetta resounding in the ears of those unversed.

3

Koko is a character from the operetta The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan.

4

That's longer than a good deal of operas, for instance (and back in Final Fantasy VI, an operetta was included in the soundtrack itself).

5

I used to do high content screening of cells with machines like the Perkin Elmer Operetta and lots of dyes.

6

Is it a reference to the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?

7

There were special coffee-houses for pianists and others for string-players, for operetta composers and for serious composers, for stamp collectors and court councilors, for radicals and conservatives.

8

When I was in high school we performed a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta almost every year and they were The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Gondoliers.

9

You could say I'm making up for lost time since I did take a couple of years completely off of programming to do a few things, including a lot of voice study and some semi-pro paying operetta gigs.

10

Unfortunately, now I have considered going pro in ballet (result: not going to happen), becoming an opera influencer (result: highly unlikely but not absolutely impossible; can I reasonably work towards the return of the comic operetta?

11

/ I don't like X because Y' to a different exercise where you need to communicate why you're really into a certain ukulele youtuber or a Chinese operetta or a Brazilian hip-hop subgenre, to someone who's never heard of them.

Quote examples

1

Just bumbling idiots and "great-man" captains in operetta uniforms, singing arias on how they control the world, while there steering wheels are attached to nothing.

2

Some guy in operetta uniforms, exclaiming "Im the captain, give me all your cash" brandishing a detached steering wheel is what the passengers want to see.

3

I've long been a fan of "Candide" (both the novella by Voltaire and the comic operetta by Leonard Bernstein but for this comment I mean the operetta) and I've been unable to stop myself from watching the "Auto-da-fe" section lately.

4

I just did a search and found it in a New York Times piece about commercial TV from 1975, and this: "Popular music of restaurant level is the lowest common denominator of Viennese operetta", from a review in The Times in 1952.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use operetta in a sentence?

The problem is these COD operetta heroes with a death wish due to no future voted in a warchieftain who does not deliver and they get antsy.

What does operetta mean?

(music) A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue. [from 18th c.]

What part of speech is operetta?

operetta is commonly used as noun.