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The term operetta arises in the mid-eighteenth-century Italy and it is first acknowledged as an independent genre in Paris around 1850. [2] Castil-Blaze's Dictionnaire de la musique moderne claims that this term has a long history and that Mozart was one of the first people to use the word operetta, disparagingly, [7] describing operettas as "certain dramatic abortions, those miniature ...
Probably the most popular of all operettas. [125] 1874 The Two Widows (Smetana). Another comedy by Smetana, the only one of his operas with a non-Czech subject. [126] 1875 Carmen (Bizet). Probably the most famous of all French operas. Critics at the premiere were shocked by Bizet's blend of romanticism and realism. [127]
Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel (22 January 1871 – 4 January 1942), was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march The Parade of the Tin Soldiers, also known as The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. Jessel was a prolific composer who wrote ...
Sousa adopted characteristics of their style like short recitatives and chorus finales. Most of the songs in the operettas were Sousa's own composition. According to author Paul E. Bierley, Sousa's operettas displayed a "high standard of morality". - is all of that sourced to the
Le Brésilien, one-act 'comédie-vaudeville' by Meilhac and Halévy, songs by Offenbach, first performed at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 9 May 1863. The 'Ronde du Brésilien' became a popular number for café-concerts.
One of the most popular theatrical forms in the early decades of the 20th century in America was the operetta, and its most famous composer was Irish-born Victor Herbert. It was announced in 1912 that Italian-born operetta diva Emma Trentini would be starring on Broadway in a new operetta by Herbert with lyricist Otto Harbach entitled The Firefly.
The subjects of the new operas by Monteverdi and others were generally drawn from Roman history or legends about Troy, in order to celebrate the heroic ideals and noble genealogy of the Venetian state. However they did not lack for love interest or comedy. Most of the operas consisted of three acts, unlike the earlier operas which normally had ...