"Die Fledermaus" is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II and is the treasure of the operettas in Vienna.(輕歌劇《蝙蝠》是十九世紀作曲家約翰·斯·特勞斯的一部佳作，是維也納輕歌劇中的瑰寶。)

Offenbach is a famous operetta master, and was the creator of operetta, a humorous, conventional, and unique entertaining means.(奧芬巴赫是著名的輕歌劇大師，他開創了輕歌劇這樣一個幽默通俗、獨具特色的新的歌劇形式。)

The operetta is about a girl named Bettina who is sent to take care of the turkeys of an unlucky farmer by the farmer's brother.(這出小歌劇講述的是一個名叫貝蒂娜的女孩兒的故事，在劇中她被一個農夫派去照看他倒霉兄弟的火雞。)

His greatest merit was to have worked with it totally, from opera to opo and operetta.(他最大的優點就是全身心投入工作——從歌劇到流行音樂和輕歌劇。)

Right at the end of 1880 an operetta called la Mascotte played first in French and then in English in 1881 introducing the English speaking world to the word mascot.(就在1880年底的當兒，一出名為“吉祥物”的獨幕小歌劇以法語首演，并隨后于1881年用英語演出，從而將“mascot”一詞引入英語國家。)

Operetta is an important kind of opera, which just flourished in the period of the late 19th century and the early 20th century.(輕歌劇就是繁榮于19世紀末至20世紀初的一種重要歌劇樣式。)

The operetta become more and more popular.(小歌劇越來越流行。)

Still, we can observe that the musical is primarily an American form, even if it showed clear evidence of influence from European operetta.(盡管歐洲輕歌劇對音樂劇的影響一目了然，但在我們看來音樂劇主要還是美式的。)

In 1871 he wrote his first operetta Indigo und die vierzig Rauber (Indigo and the Forty Thieves).(1871年，他寫下他的第一部輕歌劇《英迪果和40個強盜》。)

The musical grew as two streams converged: operetta with its old-world romance, and vaudeville with its zippy comedy and thoroughly popular roots.(音樂劇的成長伴隨著兩種潮流的融合，帶有古典傳奇色彩的輕歌劇以及帶有活潑喜劇和流行節奏特色的輕音樂戲劇。)