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	Operetta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operetta (literally, "little opera") is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics.
		Operetta is often considered less "serious" than opera, although this has more to do with the generally comic plots than with the caliber of the music.
		Operetta grew out of the French opéra comique around the middle of the 19th century, to satisfy a need for short, light works in contrast to the full-length entertainment of the increasingly serious opéra comique.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operetta (734 words)

	operetta on Encyclopedia.com
		The distinction between the operetta and the lighter examples of opéra comique that immediately preceded it is hard to draw; in general the opéra comique makes some appeal to the sentiments, while the French operetta attempts only to amuse.
		The Viennese operetta, dating from c.1870, did not have the excellent librettists that the French enjoyed; the operettas of Johann Strauss the younger suffered from this defect.
		The noteworthy composers in American operetta are Victor Herbert and Reginald de Koven.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/o1/operetta.asp (477 words)

	Broadway: The American Musical . Hello, Broadway! . Operetta \| PBS
		Operetta was tailor-made for the tastes and habits of the turn-of-the-20th century consumer of refined amusement.
		Operetta provided a fanciful in-between world of romance and escape; it was the most popular brand of musical theater for the first two decades of the 20th century.
		The romantic appeal of the operetta made it, along with the revue and the musical comedy, an integral part of the American theatrical scene at the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/hello/operetta.html (606 words)

	Operetta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Operetta is often considered less "serious" than opera, although this has more to do with the generally comic plots than withthe caliber of the music.
		Operetta grew out of the French opéra comique, in which dialogue was spoken, though the opéra was not alwayscomique: Carmen is an example of a tragic plot.
		His operettas, waltzes,polkas, and marches often have a strongly Viennese style and his great popularity has caused many to think of him as the nationalcomposer of Austria.
	www.therfcc.org /operetta-62637.html (559 words)

	Encyclopedia: Operetta
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		The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a Gilbert and Sullivan comic operetta in two acts.
		Operettas by composer: // Ralph Benatzky Im weissen RÃ¶ssl Leonard Bernstein Candide ([[1956])) Noel Coward Bitter Sweet (1929) Anton Diabelli Adam in der Klemme Edmund Eysler Die goldne Meisterin Harold Fraser-Simpson The Maid of the Mountains (1917) Rudolf Friml The Firefly (1912) Rose Marie (1923) The Vagabond King...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Operetta (1617 words)

	Music Associates of America ~ MadAminA! Operetta Goes Urtext
		The premiere of this operetta (Offenbach himself called it an "opéra bouffe") took place on 17 December 1864 and caused a scandal — at least among the critics in the theater.
		Yet the operetta is more than a historical prank at the expense of the military: the recent productions under Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Styriarte Festival in Graz (2003) and the Zurich Opera (2004), both using Michael Rot's new critical edition, prove that it has lost none of its topical relevance.
		Apparently both couplets were sung at different spots of the operetta in the nineteenth century.
	www.musicassociatesofamerica.com /madamina/features/operettas.html (2157 words)

	Lyric Theatre of San Jose - New To Operetta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		An operetta is a form of a play acted out on stage with music in the form of songs and choruses.
		Operettas are more like operas than musicals in this regard, though because the situations are happy, the music is much lighter, and on the whole, snappier and tuneful.
		When most operettas were written, you see, there were no microphones or amplifiers in theaters (not to mention electricity to power them) and it was how most artists sang in order to have the audience hear them.
	www.lyrictheatre.org /new2operetta.html (1198 words)

	Business Wire: Vocalis Signs Distributors to Bring Operetta, t... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Operetta is the latest development from Vocalis, a company with a long history in developing speech technology and telephony products.
		Operetta is a turn-key solution that connects to an existing PBX providing a speech-based call routing system.
		Operetta and SPEECHtel are registered trademarks of Vocalis Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19562877&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (467 words)

	The history of the operetta
		His first operetta was the hit Ba-ta-clan, an entertaining mix that caught on wildly with the waltzing crowd in Europe at the time.
		After Offenbach's death in 1880, another talented operetta composer stepped into the limelight, none other than the famous Johann Strauss II, the son of the Johann Strauss I and a famous waltz conductor and composer.
		The British were the next to pick up the operetta tradition, and their most famous contributors were the team of Gilbert and Sullivan.
	okok.essortment.com /historyoperetta_rfpn.htm (533 words)

	Operetta biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Operetta grew out of the French opéra comique, in which dialogue was spoken, though the opéra was not always comique: Carmen is an example of a tragic plot.
		The Viennese tradition was carried on by Franz Lehár, Oscar Straus and Sigmund Romberg in the 20th century.
		The pair of composers are popularly referred to as Gilbert and Sullivan.
	operetta.biography.ms (568 words)

	Great Performances . "The Merry Widow" from the San Francisco Opera . An Introduction to Operetta and ...
		Composer Franz Lehár was born in Komarom, Hungary in 1870 at a time when the Austro-Hungarian Empire had begun to wane, having lost most of the land it held in Italy and noticing the stirrings of rebellion in its other Hapsburg-held territories.
		Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" had its premier in 1874, and operetta was at least as popular as opera throughout the empire.
		Operetta is different from opera because there is much more dancing and spoken dialogue, and performers need to be expert actors and comedians in addition to having the singing abilities equal to some of the most demanding works of opera.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/merrywidow/essay2.html (351 words)

	Encyclopedia: Gilbert and Sullivan
		Gilbert rummaged around in his published comic verse and hit on the tale of a respectable Cockney businessman who happened to be a sorcerer, a purveyer of blessings (not much called for) and curses (very popular).
		Their works were originally produced by British impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte, considered by some to be the third member of this partnership, who built the Savoy Theatre in London to present their operettas, and formed the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which would perform the Savoy Operettas with exacting detail until 1982.
		The Gilbert and Sullivan operettas were even more popular abroad, and many American cities saw amateur and professional Gilbert and Sullivan performing groups.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gilbert-and-Sullivan (4932 words)

	OPERETTA FAVORITES review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He is in outstanding voice on all tracks and the newcomer is able to hear his soaring “formal operetta” baritone and compare it to the contemporary “crooner” style that he displays in “Roberta”.
		The “Widow” is a mainstay of German operetta and its most faithful English-speaking supporters have been the British in two translations in the late 50s.
		It is, within the operetta genre, a heart-rending interpretation His interpretation of “Girls, Girls, Girls” - originally sung by a septet but here by Gordon with a male chorus- has an equally cheerful interpretation of the musing of confused males about the mysteries of women.
	www.patfullerton.com /gm/reviews/operettafavoritesreview.html (396 words)

	Treasures of Operetta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Two more CDs followed--"Treasures of the Operetta II and III." I was not prepared for the impact these exquisitely crafted recordings would have on me.
		I have long had a love of operetta but found that there were not a large number of recordings to be found in that genre.
		I have a modest collection of operetta recordings but I would be hard pressed to name one more satisfying than this generous 36 track package.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:B00000JWJ5 (219 words)

	Viennese operetta (from theatre music) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The younger Johann Strauss made operetta an international entertainment by an expert blend of charm and craft, and his Die Fledermaus (1874; The Bat) remains a classic of its kind.
		The operetta originated in part with the tradition of popular theatrical genres such as the commedia dell'arte that flourished in Italy...
		A musical-dramatic production, operetta was originally a short comic opera that by the 19th century had become a stage play with music and spoken dialogue of a farcical and satiric nature.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-27814?tocId=27814 (865 words)

	The history of Commedia dell Arte Operetta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		December 30th 1905 marks the begin of the 'silver era' of the Viennese operetta: on that evening, the 'Merry Widow' by Lehár, one of the most successful operettas of all time, was performed for the first time at the Theater an der Wien.
		The comic opera-like elements of the classic operetta were repressed to the advantage of a new sensuality and eroticism: The 'dance operetta', with stories set in the present, was born.
		The Hungarian elements of the Viennese operetta originate from the so-called 'verbunkos', lieder and dances played and sung in the 18th century on the occasion of recruitment of soldiers.
	www.commediadellarte.co.uk /history.html (862 words)

	The Viennese Operetta
		As his operettas became more and more successful, Offenbach demanded higher and higher terms, until the Viennese theatre managers groaned under the tyranny of his rule and though it high time this invading Napoleon of operetta was dethroned.
		Viennese Operetta is divided into two periods: the "Classical", which includes the works of Johann Strauss, Franz von Suppé;, Karl Millöcker, Karl Zeller and Richard Heuberger; and the "Modern", which includes Franz Lehár, Leo Fall, Oscar Strauss and Emmerich Kálmán.
		- A synopsis of the operetta by Carl Haffner, Richard Genée and Johann Strauss.
	www.theatrehistory.com /misc/vienneseoperetta.html (283 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Operetta, the long-neglected cousin of opera and musical theater, is finally getting some much-deserved recognition thanks to operetta expert Dr. Michael D. Miller, a professor of advanced mathematics at UCLA Extension.
		Operetta (literally "little opera";) spun off from opera in the mid-1800s in Paris and was created by Jacques Offenbach, a talented composer of the time.
		Although it may seem odd that an operetta expert doubles as a math professor, Miller says that he has always loved math and knew that was the profession he wanted to pursue.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=31284&date=12/9/2004 (527 words)

	Contemporary Review: Viennese Operetta. - Review - book review
		Operetta was profitable for him: a popular waltz, even the Blue Danube, brought him only one payment from his publisher, but an operetta produced a large royalty for every performance and he could still sell the individual waltzes to his eager publisher.
		Thus when she notes that among Johann Strauss's papers is an incomplete sketch for an operetta with some anti-semetic lines, she does not climb into a pulpit to assault him.
		As Camille Crittenden notes: 'Strauss's operettas preserve a distilled version of Vienna; one free of domestic strife and populated by a happy Volk united against common enemies'.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1619_277/ai_69279077 (1327 words)

	Operetta Set to Bring Laughs to Mem Aud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Austrian operetta, with both spoken dialogue and music, will be presented in Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
		The operetta will star Mark Baker, Kenyon College professor of voice, and Marjorie Bennett, OU assistant professor of voice and vocal pedagogy.
		The difference between operetta and full-scale opera is that the plot is lighter - the music and the sets are still done in a grand style.
	thepost.baker.ohiou.edu /archives/012696/operetta.html (397 words)

	The Operetta Extravaganza
		A completely new and fresh interpretation of some of the most beloved operetta music, brought together under the direction of one of Europe's most talented directors in a rare theatrical experience.
		Featuring excerpts of the three most beloved Operettas, set in three of the most famous musical cities in Europe, the production includes prose, dance, a full orchestra and an all star European cast of 50.
		It is the story of a popular showgirl who has a very difficult time maneuvering through the many obstacles to get to her true love.
	www.centre-square.com /operetta.html (376 words)

	Budapest’s Operetta Theater Reaches an International Audience With Meyer Sound System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The salient feature of the Operetta's design is that the sound system is always in time with the artist’s onstage voice and correctly imaged to where the performer is located on stage.
		To continue and enhance the city’s reputation for high-caliber musical and operetta performances, a number of theaters in the last few years have been remodeled to include state-of-the-art professional audio systems – and one prominent recent installation is in the Operetta Theater.
		Integrating the latest sound reinforcement systems into historic theaters such as Budapest’s Operetta, says László Kovács of Atec Audio, allows the city as well as the Theater to attract not only the leading performances of today, but also to offer the quality of sound reinforcement necessary for the musical events of tomorrow.
	www.meyersound.com /news/2001/operetta.htm (366 words)

	European Operetta 1850-1880: Champagne Nights
		These operettas, and their songs, became international favorites, making Offenbach a global celebrity.
		He admired Offenbach’s operettas and made no secret of his desire to write one of his own.
		The British would take comic operetta to new heights, but for most of the 19th Century their primary musical entertainment was one that contributed a great deal to the future sound and spirit of musical theater –; the music hall.
	www.musicals101.com /operetta.htm (1275 words)

	Operetta, Zarzuela and Broadway - Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The next generation of Viennese operetta composers comprised the Silver Age of Operetta.
		This operetta became a hit starring Alexander Girardi, the greatest theatre singer of his time.
		Stolz was active as a conductor to the end of an extremely long life - he conducted operetta recordings in the 1960's and '70's of works by Fall, Lehár and Kálmán that he had premiered almost 50 years earlier.
	home.prcn.org /pauld/opera/operetta02.htm (507 words)

	Staatsoperette Dresden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Dresden State Operetta is the only independent operetta theatre in the German-speaking world and at the same time one of the most important venues for light musical theatre in Europe.
		Apart from operetta evergreens like “The Gipsy Princess,” “Vienna Blood,” and “The Land of Smiles,” the program also includes the light operas “The Merry Wives of Windsor” by Otto Nicolai and “The Poacher” by Albert Lortzing.
		“The Carneval of Rome,” a virtually forgotten operetta by the master of operetta’s golden era, was given a dazzling première at the Dresden State Operetta, having since become a crowd-pleaser.
	www.staatsoperette-dresden.de /web/en/index.html (153 words)

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