Definitions

1. Operettas are often considered less "serious" than operas. (Web site)
2. Operas and operettas are usually referred to by the name of the composer alone, the librettist being relegated to limbo.
3. Plays and operettas were deeply entrenched in a heavy style soon to be identified as "Victorian".

Several Operettas

1. Yet he also wrote a large number of stage works, including several operettas and musicals, along with his five operas. (Web site)

French Operettas

1. Viennese operetta was inspired by the fashion for the French operettas of Jacques Offenbach. (Web site)

Composing Operettas

1. Clearly, Offenbach could have chosen to remain primarily a performing artist, but in 1847 he began composing operettas, his first being L'alcove. (Web site)

Light Operas

1. Similarly, some older operettas or light operas have had modern productions or adaptations that treated them very much as musicals. (Web site)

Associated

1. She was closely associated with Oscar Straus, creating roles in six of his operettas, notably Der letzte Walzer in 1920.

Singing

1. Most operettas can be described as light operas with acting, whereas most musicals are closer to being plays with singing. (Web site)

Dialogue

1. Operettas generally have a substantial amount of spoken (not sung) dialogue. (Web site)

July 29

1. Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian -born American composer, best-known for his operettas. (Web site)

List

1. See also List of operetta composers The opera corpus which includes operettas. (Web site)

Musical Comedies

1. After World War I operettas gradually gave way to musical comedies (see musicals). (Web site)

Comic Operas

1. Soubrette roles are most often associated with operettas and comic operas, such as Franz Lehar's operetta, The Merry Widow. (Web site)

Popular

1. Victor Herbert (1859-1924) Irish-born American composer, known for his highly popular operettas.

Broadway

1. It quickly attained high standards under conductor Frederic Archer, and Victor Herbert, the Irish-born leading composer of Broadway operettas. (Web site)
2. In the theater, echoes of the Viennese style could be heard on Broadway in the operettas of Victor Herbert.

Vaudeville

1. They wrote for vaudeville, as well as Broadway musicals, and operettas. (Web site)

Arthur Sullivan

1. Arthur Sullivan - Brief biography with summary of operettas and Naxos discography.

Gilbert

1. In 1871, Gilbert began his collaboration with Arthur Sullivan, lasting about 20 years, which resulted in the popular operettas for which they are famous. (Web site)

Works

1. Brief biography of Jacques Offenbach - his life, operettas and other works. (Web site)
2. A bibliography of his recordings, compositions, operettas, instrumental, choral and other works. (Web site)

Concert Music

1. Many themes from his operettas found their way into his great marches and concert music. (Web site)

Spoken Dialogue

1. Operettas had immediately attractive tunes, comic (and often frivolous) plots and used spoken dialogue between the musical "numbers". (Web site)

Johann Strauss

1. The Singspiel is the direct ancestor of the operettas of Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss II and their successors.

Sullivan

1. The "patter songs" of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas frequently employ a great deal of parlando singing. (Web site)

Opera

1. I recommend this to any Gilbert & Sullivan lover, any fan of musical comedy, opera and operettas, and anyone who delights in good music. (Web site)
2. Overtures go back to opera and were standard with operettas before musical comedies found the value of warming up the audience with selections of the score. (Web site)

Operas

1. Operas and operettas, particularly those by Gilbert and Sullivan, were touring the United States.
2. Topical satire is a feature common to many operettas, although of course this is also true of some "serious" operas as well. (Web site)

Musicals

1. In the Hollywood context, musicals emerged with the coming of sound motion pictures, from roots in stage musicals and operettas, revues, and vaudeville.
2. Other film genres typical of this period were adaptations of operettas, hospital melodramas, comedies and musicals.
3. Hammerstein enjoyed a major career as lyricist for composer Jerome Kern on many musicals and operettas, most notably Show Boat.

Composer

1. Sigmund Romberg was probably the most noted composer of operettas, including The Desert Song.
2. As a composer, Herbert is chiefly remembered for his operettas. (Web site)

Offenbach

1. Franz von Suppé, a contemporary of Strauss, closely modeled his operettas after Offenbach. (Web site)
2. See List of operettas by Offenbach (99 works). (Web site)
3. External links Extensive site with information about operettas, light operas and their composers Essay on operettas of Offenbach, Johann Strauss Jr. (Web site)

Operettas

1. Also popular were the operettas, farces and comedies of Ludovic Halévy, Henri Meilhac, and, at the turn of the century, Georges Feydeau. (Web site)
2. See List of compositions by Léo Delibes and List of operas and operettas by Delibes. (Web site)
3. Rudolf Friml (December 7, 1879 - November 12, 1972) was a composer of operettas, musicals and songs, as well as a pianist.

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