Singspiel

Native dramatic tastes, once fostered by minnesingers and strolling players, were kept alive by the "singspiel," or song-play, composed of spoken dialogue and popular song, which furnished the actual beginnings of German national music drama. ❋ Aubertine Woodward Moore (1885)

'' '' 'The Magic Flute' '' '' (German '' '' 'Die Zauberflöte' '' '') is a two-act '' singspiel '' ❋ Unknown (2009)

Justifiable or not, this is easy enough to accomplish in a singspiel which is made up of separate numbers divided by dialogue. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Not that it lacks more straightforward ways of hitting the dancefloor sweet spot: Flashy Flashy is asweetly irresistible singspiel duet between Allien and a pitched-down version of herself, while on highlights Our Utopie and Ever, she allies music-box tinkles to big, banging techno grooves tosuperb effect. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In this much-awaited continuation of his Mozart cycle, Rene Jacobs approaches the famous singspiel "The Magic Flute" as if it were a radio play, including all the spoken dialogue, often with musical commentary from the keyboard, and sound effects from a veritable battery of percussion. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)

So it was rather brilliant of the director James Marvel, bringing Mozart's unfinished singspiel "Zaide" to the Wolf Trap Opera Company's stage on Friday night, to find a contemporary equivalent in science fiction. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most of Mozart's operas are in Italian, but this is a singspiel in German like "The Magic Flute" with impossibly difficult arias, lots of spoken dialogue, and an abundance of comic schtick. ❋ Sfmike (2009)

Die Entführung aus dem Serail is, at first blush, a very nice singspiel - albeit a bit heavy on the Turkish stuff. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2006)

However, Mozart managed to take the idiom of the singspiel and innovate with some really brilliant moments. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2006)

Of all the brokers, managers, and investment bankers in the Bull&Bear with whom you might hold mental hands at this critical, even historic moment; before whom you might pour out your singspiel of personal defeat, why did you have to end up at a table with these two ... outcasts? ❋ Robbins, Tom (1994)

The piece is not grand opera (all music), but singspiel, the German term for a kind of higher-toned operetta (musical numbers with spoken dialogue). ❋ Ken Winters (2011)

It's a strange hybrid - in the early scenes, singspiel and comic dialogue, then evolving into melodrama and, finally, into oratorio. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The prominence of the first movement bassoon part almost equals the dark flourishes in the keyboard, competing as it does with a large ensemble rife with harmonic and metric clashes much at odds with the amiable singspiel/opera ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1791, Mozart and fellow Mason Emanuel Schikaneder collaborated on a singspiel that premiered on September 30, 1791. ❋ Unknown (2010)