burletta

/ber-let-uh/US // bərˈlɛt ə //

勃莱塔,勃列塔,勃利塔,勃雷塔

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Theater.
- : a musical drama containing rhymed lyrics and resembling comic opera or a comic play containing songs.

It may be regarded as a species of prototype of the burletta or ballad opera of later days.
Every body liked the Burletta, but none were pleased with the music—which has induced me to reset it.
But the form given to the work is that of the old-fashioned burletta.
We move ourselves—they are moved by wires; but we do just the same things—we are life and we are art, in the burletta we are both.
Mr. Pierce Egan says:—Mr. Barrymores Burletta was thought of, written, and got up, in five days.