Moreover, black audiences were hardly admirers of Gershwin's "folk opera."

I grew up in a very strong theatrical tradition -what you would call the traveling theater, the folk opera, we had always.

Like much of her work, it also resists conventional categorization, although folk opera might be the closest definition.

He was the most prominent of the dramatist of the folk opera.

Scores for three folk operas or musical plays survive.

The therukoothu, literally meaning "street play", is a form of village theater or folk opera.

George Gershwin called his piece a "a folk opera."

Both the American folk opera and the questions it provokes are, happily, here to stay.

The region is home to cai luong, a form of Vietnamese folk opera.

Of course you could write a jazz concerto or a folk opera.