operetta house

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Noun

operetta house (plural operetta houses)

  2. A theatre, or similar building, primarily used for staging operetta.
    Synonym: operetta
    • 1862, The Musical World, page 414:
      Now performing at the New Royalty Operetta House.
    • 2004 June, Richard Traubner, Operetta: A Theatrical History, Routledge, →ISBN:
      The situation has been gravest in the now-united Berlin, previously a Doppelgänger city, theatrically and musically, with two (or more) opera houses, two operetta houses, two theatres for classical German drama, and so forth.
    • 2014 October 14, John Elsom, Cold War Theatre (Routledge Revivals), Routledge, →ISBN, page 144:
      In the Soviet Union, about a third of the 625 main subsidised theatres were operetta houses.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “operetta”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “house”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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