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operetta

o puh re tuh

  • n  a short amusing opera

  • They have loaded their book with all the stock melodrama of opera and the seediest monkeyshines of operetta; they have lavished on South America all the tritest features of the .
  • After seeing faces like theirs, you don't feel like going to an operetta in the evening.
  • Last week he was the heroalthough he never appeared onstageof an anemic operetta put up by two British expatriates.
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  • 'Student Prince' visits New London playhouse
    Sigmund Romberg's 1920s operetta speaks to a still-contemporary climate of socio-political scandals, this one involving a prince who falls for a commoner and has to weigh Sigmund Romberg's 1920s operetta speaks to a still-contemporary climate of socio-political scandals, this one involving a prince who falls for a commoner and has to weigh matters of the heart against stately duty.matters of the ...
    June 13, 2013 - New Hampshire Union Leader

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