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
“Bowlaway” is a large and caterwauling sort of opera buffa, packed with outsize characters — some with recherché talents — and wild, often dreamlike events.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2019
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 Pasquale," an opera buffa in three acts, was first produced at the Théâtre des Italiens in Paris, Jan.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
