(music) A lighter version of opera with a frivolous story and spoken dialogue. [from 18th c.]
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.
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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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
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.
A cacophony of unknown tongues ricocheted, a grotesque operetta resounding in the ears of those unversed.
Koko is a character from the operetta The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan.
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).
I used to do high content screening of cells with machines like the Perkin Elmer Operetta and lots of dyes.
Is it a reference to the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?
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.
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.
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.
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?
/ 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
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.
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.
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.
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.