Monday, April 23, 2018

TODAY'S WORD

BURLETTA

A usually entirely comic musical opera popular in England in the latter half of the 18th century.

Origin: Italian, meaning "little joke".

Examples of burlettas:

Midas by Kane O'Hara 1760
Orpheus by Francois-Hyppolyte Barthelemon 1767
The Recruiting Sarjeant by Charles Dibdin 1770

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