Género chico

Género chico (literally, "little genre") is a Spanish genre of short light dramas. It is a subgenre of zarzuela, the Spanish operetta. It differs from zarzuela grande and most other opera forms both by being short and by aiming at a proletarian audience. It could be considered to be in many ways the nineteenth-century Spanish equivalent of the modern televised soap opera. Zarzuela had developed together with Spanish politics, beginning during the reign of Philip IV (1605 – 1665, reigned from... full article at wikipedia