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
He wrote his last complete comic opera for Yaw’s voice, as the lead in “The Rose of Persia.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024
And aside from small, specialized troupes — a local Gilbert & Sullivan society, or Ohio Light Opera — the United States doesn’t really have any comic opera companies.
From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2022
“It’s like a comic opera to-day. Maybe I'm hungry.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
