Why this word is great
BURLETTA — [Noun] A comic operetta or musical farce. From Italian burletta, diminutive of burla ("mockery, jest"). Unlike "opera" (which drowns in tragic arias) or "farce" (which tumbles through door-slamming prose), burletta pirouettes on the edge of melody and mockery. It is the champagne bubble of a soprano’s exaggerated sigh, the basso’s faux-heroic stumble over a misplaced prop crown, the entire cast collapsing into a harmonious heap of deliberate absurdity—a reminder that even the grandest human follies are better sung than sighed.