A fantastic artiste offering short songs (8)

I believe the answer is:

ariettas

'short songs' is the definition.
(short arias)

'a fantastic artiste' is the wordplay.
'fantastic' indicates anagramming the letters.
'artiste' with letters rearranged gives 'riettas'.
'a'+'riettas'='ARIETTAS'

'offering' acts as a link.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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