Light opera
Light opera noun - A short amusing opera.
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Musical and light opera are semantically related. in humorous musical performance topic. In some cases you can use "Musical" instead a noun phrase "Light opera".
Musical
Musical noun - A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing.
Light opera and musical are semantically related. You can use "Light opera" instead a noun "Musical".
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Rogers named John Reardon, and the episode, entirely set in the Land of Make-Believe and featuring a lofty plot line, would resemble a musical or light opera, with all of the characters singing their lines.
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Secombe, however, limited himself to musical theatre and the occasional light opera, such as Gilbert and Sullivan.
Source: Creator / Harry Secombe - This in itself would be a turning point, but after Gilbert and Sullivan, those making "light opera" or "operetta" began following the G&S model...and a little while later people realized that G&S had invented The Musical.
Source: Genre Turning Point
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