As is gloriously sung in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," in the words of W. S. Gilbert: "Things are seldom as they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.".    From LearnThat.org. 

The show is an operetta, which is traditionally humorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily Vanguard RSS] Reference

He composed a very amusing so-called operetta using popular tunes at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Briefing On General Marshall And The Marshall Plan] Reference

One of the characters in the operetta was a duchess whose adventures afforded the audience much diversion.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Excellency the Minister] Reference

After the operetta came a "Ballet of the Nations.".    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

She would just sing all these operetta kind of songs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Edwin Caldwell, March 2, 2001. Interview K-0202. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Psalm 118 with orchestra, seven symphonies, and an operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

KING: This movie is similar (INAUDIBLE), it's almost an operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009] Reference

The Fledermaus is the famous Viennese Waltz King's best operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Did Jerry tell you that Laurie Armitage has finished his operetta?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Mme. Louis, whose operetta, "Fleur d'Epine," met with a good reception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

Billed as a rock musical, "Together This Time" is more of a rock operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Relationships] Reference

That was a piece written for an operetta called "New Moon," Sigmund Romberg.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw] Reference

He learned to write the American popular idiom, but he was writing operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [100 Years Of Jazz Clarinetist Artie Shaw] Reference

Again Tanrade played -- this time it was the second act of his new operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

Mlle. Kercado, of later date, produced the operetta, "La Méprise Volontaire.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

Lawrence Armitage's operetta had been an artistic as well as a financial success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Her operetta, "Die Räuber und die Sänger," was successfully produced at Vienna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

It would hurt his feelings dreadfully if you didn't try for a part in his operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

For Bulgakov, Petlyura's attempt to create a Ukrainian state was "a bloody operetta.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['A Bloody Operetta'] Reference

She has composed an operetta, "His Last Chance," besides vocal, choral, and violin pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

Miss Estabrook has over forty songs to her credit, besides the operetta, "The Tournament.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

Long before this he and Mignon had come to a definite understanding regarding the operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

The operetta was to be sung in the Sanford Theatre, where the dress rehearsal had been held.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Wolfgang had written an operetta, 'Bastien und Bastienne,' founded upon a burlesque of one of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

I'm surprised to hear that she is going to enter the try-out, considering it's Laurie's operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference

Here is a delightful recording that shows why operetta charms so many despite its manifest absurdities.    From Wordnik.com.  [CD review: CPO's 'Der Obersteiger'] Reference

And the events include a concert of Viennese operetta and popular music by Berg, Johann Strauss II, Leh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Other Summer Festivals Fear to Tread] Reference

The presidential epic is poised to become a quaint relic, like the concept album and the comic operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The YouTube Election] Reference

Nixon had outfitted some White House people in uniforms that looked like they were something of a victor operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2006] Reference

The operetta was charming, and splendidly performed; it was pronounced the prettiest thing ever given at Miss Allen's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference

That's just a piece we're hearing now, "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring" from The Mikado, a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Abundance of Spring Music in the Air] Reference

To be sure, the New York City Opera revived its delectable production of "L'Etoile," his divinely silly 1877 operetta, earlier this year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Smiling Genius] Reference

Every one says I have the voice for it, and I suppose I could make a hit in light operetta or vaudeville as well now as when I was a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference