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- noun Plural form of
burletta .
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Examples
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There is one by poor Christopher Smart.] comic operas, or 'burlettas', all dealing with the ludicrous misfortunes of the Phrygian king.
Proserpine and Midas Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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The nuptials were prepared with surprising pomp and magnificence; the ceremony was attended with feasts, carousals, and burlettas: all Italy composed sonnets in my praise, though not one of them was tolerable.
Candide 2007
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And as we have seen, technologies of visual spectacle developed to complement the "illegitimate" productions of melodrama, the gothic, pantomimes, burlettas, and various quadraped extravaganzas.
Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_ 2005
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Diversions, you know, Madam, are never at high-water mark before Christmas; yet operas flourish pretty well: those on Tuesdays are removed to Mondays, because the Queen likes the burlettas, and the King cannot go on Tuesdays, his post-days.
Letters of Horace Walpole 01 Walpole, Horace 1890
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Though Rameau enjoyed supremacy over the serious opera, a great excitement was created in Paris by the arrival of an Italian company, who in 1752 obtained permission to perform Italian burlettas and intermezzi at the opera-house.
The Great Italian and French Composers Ferris, George T 1878
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The popularity of these performances was beyond question, however, and, in time, the mute drove the speaking harlequin from the stage: the great theatres probably copying the form of pantomimes of the minor houses, as they were by-and-by also induced to follow the smaller stages in the matter of their melodramas and burlettas.
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Dutton Cook 1856
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Sketches by Boz; and he had also produced one or two comic burlettas.
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Horses are now banished at this place, where, under an annual license from the magistrates of the county, burlettas, melodramas, dancing, and pantomimes are got up, and performed in a style which would not disgrace even the patent theatres.
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The burlettas are begun; I think, not decisively liked or condemned yet: their success is certainly not rapid, though
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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There are no less than five operas every week, three of which are burlettas; a very bad company, except the Niccolina, who beats all the actors and actresses I ever saw for vivacity and variety.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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