opera bouffe
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On Tiepolo's canvases, every scene became a tableau as lively as any opera bouffe, his every room a stage across which strutted the likes of Orpheus, Eurydice, Scipio, Antony and Cleopatra.
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The Roman temperament had as much to do as the police with turning Act II of the Communist pageant into opera bouffe.
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The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse.
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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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The same delicate clockwork mechanism characterizes "L'Heure espagnol," his opera bouffe, that characterizes "Petruchka" and "Le Rossignol."
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul
