history, a burletta (Italian, meaning "little joke", sometimes burla or burlettina) is a brief comic opera. In eighteenth-century Italy, a burletta was the...

Midas is a burletta, or 'mock opera', by Kane O'Hara. Originally performed privately in 1760 near Lurgan, Ireland, it was revised and expanded with the...

developed in England by the 19th century, such as music hall, melodrama and burletta, which were popularized partly because most London theatres were licensed...

(1770). "Midas An English Burletta. As it is Performed at the Theatre-Royal, in Covent-Garden". Midas an English Burletta. As It is Performed at the...

continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keene's "musical burletta" The Seven Sisters (1860) shattered previous New York records with a run...

(Bill Sikes) In 1838 Charles Zachary Barnett's adaptation, the three-act burletta Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress opened at the Marylebone Theatre...

movements: Mesto – Più mosso, pesante – vivace Mesto – Marcia Mesto – Burletta – moderato Mesto The String Quartet No. 6 does not feature the five movement...

1809 the theatre was licensed for musical entertainments, pantomime, and burletta. She wrote more than fifty stage pieces in an array of genres: melodramas...

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Olympic Revels, or Prometheus and Pandora, a mythological, allegorical burletta in one act, London 1834 Jean-Michel Nectoux, Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life...

were not performed until later in the century. In the minor theatres, burletta and melodrama were the most popular. Kotzebue's plays were translated into...

suggesting a battle Bergamasca from Bergamo A peasant dance from Bergamo Burletta a little joke A light comic or farcical opera Cabaletta from copola (couplet)...

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The Recruiting Serjeant is a burletta by composer Charles Dibdin and playwright Isaac Bickerstaff. It premièred on 20 July 1770 at Ranelagh Gardens, London...

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Universe Midas (fictional planet), in the Colony Wars franchise Midas (burletta), a 1760 "mock opera" by Kane O'Hara Midas (Lyly play), an Elizabethan...

(1805-1810), written by Kane O’Hara Esq., adapted from Fielding Squire Badger: A burletta in two acts, Thomas Arne composer and librettist (1772), after Henry Fielding's...

Toquet with the Tuft, a burletta; Puss in Boots, a burletta; Sons and Systems, a burletta; The Burlington Arcade,’ a burletta; Izaak Walton, a drama;...

Lane Theatre engaged him to compose music to Garrick's two-act farcical burletta based on the Orpheus myth, which premiered in 1768. In the same year, Barthélemon...

plays in a wide range of genres including extravaganza, farce, comedy, burletta, melodrama and opera. Planché was responsible for introducing historically...

in the Tavola Ritonda, where she is kidnapped by the knight Burletta of the Desert (Burletta della Diserta) who wants to rape her but she is rescued by...

by the 19th century, such as music hall and melodrama. Melodramas and burlettas, in particular, were popularized partly because most London theatres were...

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A graphic interpretation of the Burletta movement of Bartók's String Quartet No. 6, by artist Joel Epstein...

L'infedeltà delusa (Deceit Outwitted), Hob. 28/5, is an operatic burletta per musica in two acts by Joseph Haydn. The Italian libretto was by Marco Coltellini...

Dibdin Burletta per musica Italian alternative name for burletta Il vero originale (Mayr 1808) Burlettina Italian alternative name for burletta Characterposse...

United States has raised a host of imitators, is the hero of these black burlettas. Mr Rice is in his way the most accomplished artist on the boards, his...

popularity of the character that William Thomas Moncrieff named his 1837 burletta Samuel Weller, or, The Pickwickians after the main comic character in the...

(1818). In addition, his L'occasione fa il ladro (1812), though called a Burletta per musica, is a farsa in all but name. Farsa by David Bryant, in 'The...

English Burletta (Dublin, 1762) The Golden Pippin: An English Burletta (London, 1773) The two Misers: A Musical Farce (London, 1775) April-Day. A Burletta (London...