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Crossword-Solution: OPERETTA 8 letters, 117 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Operetta n. A short, light, musical drama.

We have 117 clues for the answer “OPERETTA”

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"Babes in Toyland," or "The Desert Song" 1 answer
"Blossom Time," e.g. 1 answer
"Candide," for one 1 answer
"H.M.S. Pinafore" is one 1 answer
"H.M.S. Pinafore," for one 1 answer
"Iolanthe," e.g. 1 answer
"Iolanthe," for instance. 1 answer
"Merry Widow," for one 1 answer
"Mikado," e.g. 1 answer
"Naughty Marietta" is one 1 answer
"Naughty Marietta," e.g. 1 answer
"Princess Ida," e.g. 1 answer
"Show Boat." 1 answer
"Student Prince," e.g. 1 answer
"Sweethearts", say 1 answer
"Sweethearts," for instance. 1 answer
"The Merry Widow," e.g. 1 answer
"The Mikad," e.g. 1 answer
"The Mikado", for one 1 answer
"The Pirates of Penzance," e.g. 1 answer
"The Student Prince", for one 1 answer
"The Student Prince," e.g. 1 answer
"The Yeomen of the Guard," e.g. 1 answer
"Trouble in Tahiti," e.g. 1 answer
Lighthearted musical with spoken dialogue 1 answer
A short opera on humorous theme 1 answer
Amusing musical production 1 answer
Ancestor of musical theatre 1 answer
Benjamin Britten's "Paul Bunyan," e.g. 1 answer
Bernstein's "Candide," for one 1 answer
Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti," e.g. 1 answer
Comic musical work 1 answer
D'Oyly Carte offering 1 answer
D'Oyly Carte production 1 answer
Eg, The Gondoliers 1 answer
Friml's forte 1 answer
Gilbert & Sullivan production 1 answer
Gilbert and Sullivan creation 1 answer
Gilbert and Sullivan offering 1 answer
Gilbert and Sullivan performance 1 answer
Gilbert and Sullivan production 1 answer
Gilbert and Sullivan work 1 answer
Herbert creation 1 answer
Herbert's forte 1 answer
Jacques Offenbach work 1 answer
Johann Strauss work 1 answer
Lehar specialty 1 answer
Lehár specialty 1 answer
Leonard Bernstein's "Candide," e.g. 1 answer
Light form of theater 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OPERETTA (5)

The crowd was small, for most of the visitors had compressed themselves into one of the rooms, where a shrill operetta was being performed by a strolling troupe.
Confidence Henry James 2006
The terrace was nearly empty; every one had gone to listen to the operetta, the sound of whose contemporary gayety came through the open, hot-looking windows in little thin quavers and catches.
Confidence Henry James 2006
Not long ago a young musician, who has already given an opera to the world, sang an entire one-act operetta of his composition, changing his voice for the different parts, imitating choruses by clever effects on the piano.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 2008
This was all the more easily done, for, not only did she have her usual concerts and the opera to enjoy, but she had become interested in an operetta her club was about to give; also she had taken up the new song again.
Miss Billy's Decision Eleanor H. Porter 2008
Now a girls' club, of which I am a member, is getting up an operetta for charity, and we need an accompanist.
Miss Billy's Decision Eleanor H. Porter 2008

Quotes with OPERETTA (3)

My mom was sort of involved in amateur dramatics like Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and played the violin. My dad played banjo and piano and sang as well, so there was all this music in my childhood.
Colm Wilkinson
A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense of irreverence.
George C. Wolfe
'Snow White' was really hip for its time. Walt Disney was basically using Sigmund Romberg and operetta in the telling of the story, and through animation - that was revolutionary.
Alan Menken
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 134 times in crossword archives (1945–2024).