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zarzuela
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zarzuela [zɑːˈzweɪlə]
n
1. (Performing Arts / Theatre) a type of Spanish vaudeville or operetta, usually satirical in nature
2. (Cookery) a seafood stew
[from Spanish, from La Zarzuela, name of the palace near Madrid where such vaudeville was first performed (1629)]
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The big; winner, though, was Puerto Rico's Prieto, a musician to the core, whose performance of Donizetti's "Una furtiva lagrima" put him first in the opera competiton, and who tied with Arancam in the Zarzuella competition.
Irene brisson reports on one of the operatic jewels of the city's ... by Opera Canada
Another Spaniard, Jesus Guridi, draws on Basque folk music for his three-act zarzuella (operetta), The Homestead, which is his most popular work.
classical by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
In Placido Domingo's second season as artistic director, it was the first zarzuella--that peculiarly Spanish form of opera comique-cum-Viennese operetta--in the company's history: Amadeo Vives' Dona Francisquita in a production and with a cast and conductor largely imported from Madrid's Teatro Nacional de Zarzuella and the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires.
World report: reviews of opera ... United States by Maria Iantosca, and others / Opera Canada
 
 
 
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