- 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...
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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...
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developed in
England by the 19th century, such as
music hall,
melodrama and
burletta,
which were po****rized
partly because most
London theatres were licensed...
- 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...
- (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...
- po****rity of the
character that
William Thomas Moncrieff named his 1837
burletta Samuel Weller, or, The
Pickwickians after the main
comic character in the...
- 1809 the
theatre was
licensed for
musical entertainments, pantomime, and
burletta. She
wrote more than
fifty stage pieces in an
array of genres: melodramas...
- movements:
Mesto – Più mosso,
pesante –
vivace Mesto –
Marcia Mesto –
Burletta –
moderato Mesto The
String Quartet No. 6 does not
feature the five movement...
- Brownlow) In 1838
Charles Zachary Barnett's adaptation, the three-act
burletta Oliver Twist; or, The
Parish Boy's
Progress opened at the
Marylebone Theatre...
