Comic opera and humour, Offenbach's works were intended solely to amuse. Though generally well crafted and full of humorous satire and grand opera parodies, plots and characters in his works were often interchangeable. Given the frenetic pace at which he worked, Offenbach sometimes used the same material in more than one opera. Another Frenchman who took up this form was Charles Lecocq (1832–1918). The singspiel developed in 18th-century Vienna and spread throughout Austria and Germany. As in the French "opéra comique", the "singspiel" was an opera with spoken dialogue, and usually a comic subject, such as Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Janko Kastelic In 2002 he won the position as an assistant in the Vienna State Opera, where he also conducted performances of "Das Traumfresserchen", "Aladdin" and "Bastien und Bastienne". He has prepared works for the Klangbogen Festival Vienna and the Salzburger Festspiele and was the conductor of the TU Orchester Wien, where he led novel orchestra concerts focusing on French and Classical repertoire. He was responsible for the demanding choruses in "Moses und Aron" by Arnold Schoenberg at the Vienna State Opera in March 2007. In 2008 he conducted performances of "Die Fledermaus" by Johann Strauss at the Musik Theater Schönbrunn in