1. burletta - Noun
2. burletta - Adjective
A comic operetta; a music farce.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNew York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keene 's "musical burletta" Seven Sisters (1860) shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. Source: Internet
Wilmeth and Miller, p. 56 Other early musical theatre in America consisted of British forms, such as burletta and pantomime, but what a piece was called did not necessarily define what it was. Source: Internet