His songs at Columbia included everything from pop and jazz standards, novelties, gospel, spirituals, R&B numbers, country, western, folk, rock 'n' roll, calypso, foreign language, children's music, film and television themes, tangos, light operetta.

The lighter operetta is considered borderline, whilst stage and film musicals and musical comedy are firmly placed in the popular melodic category.

The zarzuelas (light one-act operettas) and bufos (ribald satirical comedy) both included songs with content about contemporary political and social events.

Its roots lie in Spanish popular song forms, including tiranas, polos and boleros; also in Italian light operetta, French romanza, and the slow waltz.

Widerberg started with parts in light operettas, until her performance in La vestale by Spontini (in 1821) proved her capable of performing more demanding parts.

He made his stage debut in the summer of 1906 in the light operetta The Social Whirl at the The Shubert Organization's Casino Theatre.

The small opera company there was not very good and the music they sang was just light operetta.

Rumshinsky tried to steer Yiddish musical entertainment away from what he called "elevated vaudeville" toward his own vision of a new American genre of Yiddish light operetta.

Hungarian popular music in the early 20th century consisted of light operettas and the Roma music of various styles.

Beginning with Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow, light operettas, or comic operas, begin to dominate the theaters of Broadway.