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Also Singspiel.
[Ger., f. singen to sing + spiel play.]
A semi-dramatic performance in which song and dialogue alternate, popular in Germany in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
1876F. L. Ritter Hist. Mus. 266 The ‘Singspiel’ or ‘operette’ as constructed by Hiller, makes use of the spoken dialogue, as does the French comic opera. 1880Grove's Dict. Mus. II. 519/1 That best and truest form of German Opera, the ‘Singspiel’. 1911E. J. Dent Mozart's Opera ‘The Magic Flute’ 4 [Schikaneder] gave a season of German ‘Singspiel’ (comic opera) at Vienna in the winter of 1784–5. 1930Observer 23 Mar. 25 Many [operettas] of the German ‘singspiel’ type could be done. 1942E. Blom Music in Eng. ii. 24 English ballad opera crept into Germany by the back door and served as the direct model for the German Singspiel. 1962Guardian 7 Feb. 9/1 Cherubini..evolved a style of opéra comique..not unlike the singspiel of Mozart (‘Seraglio’). 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 10 June 710/5 A more general discussion of opera seria, Singspiel, etc. |