[DOC] [TLE] Opera - Wikipedia [PAR] Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work 
combining text ... In some forms of opera, such as singspiel, opra comique, 
operetta, and semi-opera, the recitative is mostly replaced by spoken dialogue. 
..... musical burlesques, European operettas, and late Victorian era light operas, 
notably... [DOC] [TLE] Operetta - Wikipedia [PAR] Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. 
... Operetta grew out of the French opra comique around the middle of the 19th 
... Most researchers acknowledge that the credit for creating the operetta form 
should go to .... There is usually no musical accompaniment to the dialogue, 
although... [DOC] [TLE] Opra comique - Wikipedia [PAR] Opra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and 
arias. It emerged ... This form of opra comique was often known as comdie 
mle d'ariettes, but the range of subject ... Here plays began to include musical 
numbers called vaudevilles, which were existing popular tunes refitted with new 
words. [DOC] [TLE] Musical theatre - Wikipedia [PAR] Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken 
dialogue, ... Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like 
opera and .... opra comique, zarzuela and other forms of light musical 
entertainment were .... the mold from which almost all later major musical 
comedies evolved. [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 14: The Early Classic Period: Opera and Vocal Music ... [PAR] The focus on melody in the Classic period led to a musical syntax different from ... 
Opra comique was a kind of French light opera in which songs alternated with ... 
A Singspiel was an opera in German with spoken dialogue and lively musical ... 
The da capo aria form evolved over time, as composers introduced a greater... [DOC] [TLE] opera-comique | music | Britannica.com [PAR] Opra-comique, French form of opera in which spoken dialogue alternates with ... 
musical drama distinguished from other opera only by its spoken dialogue. ... The 
opras-comiques of this period were characterized by social comment, light plots 
... The French opra comique evolved during the same period and was given... [DOC] [TLE] singspiel | form of opera | Britannica.com [PAR] 18th-century opera in the German language, containing spoken dialogue ... The 
earliest singspiels were light plays whose dialogue was interspersed ... 
Resembling the contemporary English ballad opera and the French opra-
comique (both of ... singspiel evolved into a serious and more complete art form 
in such works as... [DOC] [TLE] Opra-comique - NTNU [PAR] I the eighteenth century in France a new form of musical theatre mixing spoken 
dialogue with song evolved into one of the most successful forms of theater on a
... [DOC] [TLE] Guide to Musical Theatre - Operetta - The Guide to Light Opera and ... [PAR] A light opera with spoken dialogue, songs and dances. ... akin to the Musical 
Comedy, into which the operetta evolved in English-speaking countries. The 
policy of the Thtre de l'Opra-Comique to favour works of more serious ... 
individual new form of entertainment, led the operetta to become established as a 
separate... [DOC] [TLE] theatre music - Music for television | musical genre | Britannica.com [PAR] The trend is consequently for spoken drama either to dispense with music, ... led 
in Italy to the evolution of the predominantly musical forms of opera and oratorio 
... of a work of lesser musical pretensions than opera, with spoken dialogue 
linking ... The classical Peking opera (ching-hsi) in China is a form of musical 
theatre in... [DOC] [TLE] opera - Early opera in France and England | music | Britannica.com [PAR] Dec 18, 2014 ... Opera was imported into France from Italy well before 1650, but it long failed to ... 
interludes) and the ballet, the favourite form of musical entertainment at court. ... 
Comdie-Franaise theatre company and also evolved the French overture (a 
.... light, usually comic operas that incorporated spoken dialogue. [DOC] [TLE] Opra-Comique - Cambridge Scholars Publishing [PAR] Opra-comique is distinguished by its use of spoken dialogue to link the

Question: This form of light opera with spoken dialogue evolved from the opera comique & led to the musical
Answer: Operetta