Your favourite light operas

[jayne lee wilson]

I'm no sort of an opera fan, light or otherwise, but at gunpoint I'd subject myself to Nielsen's Maskarade or Roberto Gerhard's The Duenna...

[Hornspieler]

How about "The Batsman's Bride"?

Otherwise it has to be "The Merry Widow"

No.

You're talking about The Battered Bride (deceased husband owned a Fish and Chip shop)

HS

[hafod]

I think:

"Comic Opera" is an Opera (no spoken dialogue) based on a comedy: nobody dies and everybody who deserves to be is happy at the end.
"Light Opera" is an Opera with a whistful, gentle topic and with sentimental moments.
"Operetta" is a Musical written by a European composer in the 19th Century - spoken dialogue to keep the story moving, with Arias as soliloquys and Duets, choruses, dance numbers etc.

Thank you. I'll settle for that - succinct and easy to remember.