Chris Monks returns with the latest classic operetta to be given the special New Vic treatment.
Copland's rousing Fanfare for the Common Man prefaces the overture to Gershwin's satirical operetta Strike up the Band.
In 1752 he brought out at Fontainebleau an operetta, the Devin du village, which was successful.
In the autumn of 1825 the handsome and fascinating enfant gate of the salons and ateliers - "La Neuvieme Merveille du monde " - had the luck to get an operetta (Don Sancho) performed three times at the Academie Royale.
Or rather, the universe itself is one. ' In 1892, Holst wrote a two act operetta entitled Lansdown Castle.
This young company produced an operetta each summer holiday and raised more than £ 6,000 for charity.
To me it is more of a rock operetta, the dancer's show with continuous singing, and less a musical.