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comic opera

noun as in musical genre

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That is true, but still I was not exactly a comic opera villain.

But the Oxford writer who best captures this comic opera is its longtime writer in residence, the sadly now-deceased Barry Hannah.

Ailes knows how to make the confusion of the news into a nervous and strangely comforting comic opera.

A small contingent of the members hurried off to applaud the successful comic opera of the hour.

At last Monsieur Carvalho asked me to write a comic opera, and to take my subject from Molire.

He might better have been in comic opera than in the humble occupation of selling crabs and lobsters.

He says it's not an ordinary burlesque, but a mixture of a problem play and a comic opera.

So far so well, but I doubt whether the native comic opera will survive its originators.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to comic opera, such as: bouffe, opera bouffe, and opera comique.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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