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| | Musical theatre origins w/opera? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | There's plenty of historic blurring among opera, op←ra comique, light opera, operetta, musical comedy, and musicals. |
 | | CARMEN was written for the opera comique with dialogue - a tragic operetta if you need to pigeonhole it. |
 | | Other genres of musical theater have less singing, usually assigning the sung parts to what might be parallel to arias, duets, ensembles, etc. in opera. |
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