opera bouffe
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A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe.
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His tastes led more in the direction of the opera bouffe "and he delighted in Offenbach because he said that the operas made him laugh."
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In Los Angeles, Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, 35, exercising all the resources of her four-octave voice, starred in a choice bit of opera bouffe in three acts.
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In 1894 the U.S. struck him as "a grand opera bouffe of absolutely daft or imbecile human beings."
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An opera is a musical drama, the higher forms of which are known as grand opera, and the lower or farcical forms as opera bouffe.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
