zarzuela

Noun

zarzuela

1. a Spanish opera having spoken dialogue and usually a comic subject

8 letters in word "zarzuela": A A E L R U Z Z.

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• Definitions:
• A type of Spanish operetta. Writers of zarzuelas include Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderon. (See also Opera.)
• Spanish term applied to musical comedy; begun by Calder—n in seventeenth-century Spain and brought to the New World by Spanish colonists. Zarzuelas bufas are "comical musicals," while bailetes are "dance musicals."
• a native Spanish brand of opera, usually short, comic and with spoken dialogue, dating from before the arrival of Italian opera, popular in the mid-17th century and revived in the mid-19th century It was supposedly named after the palace outside Madrid where such performances were given.
• Zarzuela (IPA /θar'θwela/ in Spain, /sar'swela/ in the New World), is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance. ...

• zarnichs ←
• zarnich ←
• zarnecs ←
• zarzuela
• → zarzuelas
• → zas
• → zastruga