Operetta
Subtitle: A Theatrical History (Routledge Studies in Musical Genres)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 25, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780415966412
First sentence: ACCORDING to most French dictionaries of the mid-nineteenth century, the word operette was taken from the German Operette, itself derived from the Italian term operetta.