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Operetta (French: opérette, German: operette, Italian: operetta) is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to other forms of musical theatre.
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. By this time the "comique" part of the genre name had...
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