comic opera
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Hemingway once wrote, “And Barcelona. You should see Barcelona. It is all still comic opera… Barcelona makes you laugh.”
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2025
In "La Fille du Regiment," Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera, the Canadian-American actress plays the Duchess of Krakenthorp, who reluctantly marries off her son.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
In 2014, the estate blocked Cooper’s attempt to develop a show out of a lost comic opera by Chandler, which Cooper had discovered.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
The answer is simple: It’s time for this country to create a comic opera company of its own.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022
Like Schubert, they appealed to their audience not through comic opera, Rossini-style, but by providing bitter-sweet, mostly tender reflections on love, art and life that were instandy enjoyable.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
