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Some composers realized they could attract American audiences to the opera house by translating operatic stories into English, replacing recitatives with spoken dialogue, and shortening arias. These operas were referred to as ______.

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These operas are called Operettas, then later, musicals.
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Some composers realized they could attract American audiences to the opera house by translating operatic stories into English, replacing recitatives with spoken dialogue, and shortening arias. These operas were referred to as Englished.

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I love opera but original opera. I think Englished opera is not real opera. It seems artificial to me.

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