Did you perchance mean operetta?
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“The operette “Die Fledermaus” will be played on TV sometime during the evening”
“Across the room the military buffers looked on at the operette; occasionally a joke, incomprehensible, at the expense of the naked, was called across from the military papas to the fellows who may have been doctors.”
“Displaced cavalry commanders and military attachés waltz around like characters in an operette; haut fonctionnaires intrigue; local bureaucrats abstruct.”
“_chansons_, gay and sad, and snatches of _operette_.”
The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson With a memoir by Arthur Symons
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Max Beerbohm: specifically The Happy Hypocrite, 'a fairy tale for tired men', 1897; then Seven Men, 1919, expanded 1950
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qroqqa A new operette, The Fair Captive of Samarcand, was being enacted, and the frequenters of Garble's were all curious to behold the débutante, Jenny Mere, who was said to be both pretty and talented.
—Max Beerbohm, The Happy Hypocrite, 1897
This French (or German) variant of 'operetta' isn't in my dictionary of music, though the OED has it. Dec 30, 2008