Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short drama with incidental music, like a vaudeville. It is said to have been first introduced into Spain at Zarzuela in the seventeenth century.
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- noun music A form of Spanish
opera having spoken dialogue and usually a comic subject
Etymologies
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Examples
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Spanish drama is popular, as well as the delightful Spanish "zarzuela" or musical comedy.
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
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They’ve been providing us with a wonderfully authentic and historically accurate opera form known as zarzuela since 2006.
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De Falla's opera represents an ambitious and technically brilliant development and elaboration of the traditional style of flamenco story-telling called "zarzuela".
AvaxHome RSS: leverk 2009
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The second part was dedicated to Spanish popular genre "zarzuela," a type of operetta, and Latino songs.
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De Falla's opera represents an ambitious and technically brilliant development and elaboration of the traditional style of flamenco story-telling called "zarzuela".
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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His parents were singers, so it meant a lot to him to know my mother sang opera and zarzuela--we have this bond.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Ana Maria Martinez Prepares to Sing Butterfly at Washington National Opera Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011
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Before the first zarzuela based on the Chilean miners is staged, someone should think of putting on Adam Guettel's marvellous man-stuck-in-cave musical Floyd Collins.
Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival – review Susannah Clapp 2010
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His parents were singers, so it meant a lot to him to know my mother sang opera and zarzuela--we have this bond.
Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Ana Maria Martinez Prepares to Sing Butterfly at Washington National Opera Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011
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But there's no sign of laryngitis in this aria, which is from a little known Spanish zarzuela called "La Taberna del Puerto."
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But there's no sign of laryngitis in this aria, which is from a little known Spanish zarzuela called "La Taberna del Puerto."
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