ABSTRACT
The Operetta begins with a musical prelude performed by a tango sextet. Near the end of the prelude, the Choreocritic (narrator) provides an introduction to the operetta in the form of three parallel proposals and a refrain. She moves from one proposal to the next performing a transformist act: first, she enacts a poetic, apologizing persona; second, an aggressive, avant-garde scholar; and finally, an exotic, intellectual tanguera. Unsatisfied with the results of her different approaches, she continues with her introductory recitations into Scene One.
