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A comic drama consisting of dialogue, songs, and dancing.
A short play or performance of slight dramatic construction and usually of a light or comic nature (see quot. 1892); also, a musical performance…
An opera whose style and structure are governed by considerations of dramatic effectiveness rather than by formal operatic convention; the genre…
A semi-dramatic performance in which song and dialogue alternate, popular in Germany in the latter part of the eighteenth century.