Word: operetta
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...Delphic Literary Society, Swarthmore, gave an operetta in two acts called "The Bohn of Contention," recently...
Among the "first-nighters" at the opening performance of the Bijou's latest operetta, "Prince Methusalem," were many Harvard men, who seemed to enjoy greatly the many bright passages in the play...
Tonight the new operetta, "A trip to Africa," will be brought out at the Bijou Theatre...
...jardin mabille, zoological garden, opera house, gymnasium, circus; in fact it is impossible to imagine anything, calculated to contribute to the amusement of mankind, that will not be found in this new elysium. On the opening night Rice's Opera Comique Company will present "Cinderella at School," a charming operetta whose libretto is founded on a Harvard-Yale race. Mr. Rice's company is one unusually well adapted to the production of this kind of entertainment, and embraces some extremely clever actresses...
...York critics do not think as much of Strauss' latest operetta, "The Merry War," as those of Europe. "Strauss," says one writer, "as he shows himself to us in 'Die Lustige Krieg,' is no longer the Strauss of 'Die Fledermaus.' Everything is well written, in a scholarly and artistic manner, the orchestra is discreetly and always elegantly handled; but there is also a nearly total absence of that spontaneity, that musical humor and sparkling freshness, which made 'Die Fledermaus' so delightful. The score contains various pretty numbers, but they are all more or less the product of labor rather than...