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  • On Wednesday last week, five song lyrics written by the author and set to music by the University of Manchester's Head of Composition, Dr Kevin Malone, were performed for the first time as A Clockwork Operetta on the campus, the place where Burgess graduated in English Literature in 1940.

    Anthony Burgess archive reveals vast body of previously unseen work 2011

  • Kenneth Cobonpue has designed a new pet bed called Operetta.

    The Operetta Pet Lounge by Kenneth Cobonpue 2008

  • From the album Elizabeth Schwarzkopf Sings Operetta, which I listened to all through college, thus completely missing out on the whole grunge thing.

    Can you detect what's coming next from the flex of the wrist? Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • From the album Elizabeth Schwarzkopf Sings Operetta, which I listened to all through college, thus completely missing out on the whole grunge thing.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • The trendy downtown theatre group Waterwell has free summer park performances of their fantastic musical The King Operetta.

    Ryan J. Davis: Post-Tony Theater Recommendations 2008

  • Do not pack away the bunting, leave that maypole where it is, deck the halls, sing hey-nonny, someone nip down to Tesco's for some more vodka, and pray join me in the Light Operetta Of Greeting performed only once, in 1898 at a black mass in Staines attended by Richard d'Oyly Carte, the head chef of the Savoy and the Prince of Wales for time_shark is here.

    July 30th, 2008 time_shark 2008

  • It's a fairly typical Korngold melody, with echoes of Richard Strauss and Puccini, but somehow when his melodies have words put to them, you can more clearly hear his enormous debt to Viennese Operetta.

    Love Is a Wondrous Adventure Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • Vienna mentioned here while most of the world thinks of Austria as a cute little Operetta-world *g*.

    Old citations AYDIN 2007

  • Also have the Magnetic Fields song "In An Operetta" stuck in my head.

    in an operetta... Megan Kurashige 2007

  • It's a fairly typical Korngold melody, with echoes of Richard Strauss and Puccini, but somehow when his melodies have words put to them, you can more clearly hear his enormous debt to Viennese Operetta.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

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