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comic opera

noun as in musical genre

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He has many more wild dreams — to write a comic opera, to make a French record, possibly to score a film.

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Opera prefaced it with a negligible short comic opera by Ullmann.

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In 2014, the estate blocked Cooper’s attempt to develop a show out of a lost comic opera by Chandler, which Cooper had discovered.

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He wrote his last complete comic opera for Yaw’s voice, as the lead in “The Rose of Persia.”

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A comic opera ends with a wedding, and our opera buffa is no exception.

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