opera buffa
Example Sentences
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A comic opera ends with a wedding, and our opera buffa is no exception.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
And the fierce attachment to the female point of view has the effect of turning the male characters’ rage and violence into a tragicomic opera buffa, a stylized performance of endangered pride.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2020
It has more in common with Mozart’s opera buffa than with “Days of Our Lives.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015
Berlusconi turned it into opera buffa, was in office longer than any other Italian Prime Minister, and ended up in court.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2015
"Don Giovanni," an opera buffa in two acts, words by Da Ponte, was first produced at Prague, Oct.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)
