This comic operetta is set around the confusion involving twins, both played by Koonen.

For the 1787 comic operetta of this title, see The Farmer (play).

The Bat, the English name for the 1874 comic operetta Die Fledermaus.

A zarzuela is a romantic comic operetta, originally performed before royalty in castles and summer palaces.

Amid office chaos, the unflappable duo, waving their arms and la-la-la-ing, present their theme song like the set piece from a comic operetta.

If the uniforms looked to non-Italian eyes like costumes for a comic operetta, the agenda was deadly serious.

The comic operetta was a departure from his earlier works which were all of a serious nature.

Bernstein convinced her to develop it as a comic operetta with a much more substantial musical component.

Altogether, the atmosphere is a good deal more like that of a 19th-century Viennese comic operetta than a conventional presentation of Shakespeare.

But what they called their comic operetta, which opened in New York 50 years ago this month, fared poorly at first.