11. Consequently, scores or parts for ballad operas have vanished in all except a mere handful of cases. 12. Still, he managed to compose Scottish and French songs for the ballad opera " Prince Charming ". 13. Her stage career began in 1853 in London in ballad operas , such as " The Beggar's Opera ". 14. The reasons for this dormancy must be sought in the peculiar nature of ballad operas in the 18th century. 15. Organ music was played between the acts of ballad operas ( Vauxhall and Ranelagh both had organs installed ). 16. In 1736, the Prussian ambassador to England commissioned a translation of the ballad opera " The Devil to Pay ". 17. In the twentieth century folk singers have produced musical plays with folk or folk-like songs called " ballad operas ". 18. His first publicly performed piece was the burletta " Midas ", stylistically a bridge between ballad opera and comic opera. 19. In 1952 his ballad opera , " Singin'Billy ", with music by Charles F . Bryan, was performed at the Vanderbilt Theater. 20. England traces its light opera tradition to the ballad opera , typically a comic play that incorporated songs set to popular tunes.
