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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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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Sardinian Brigade does not discredit the bravery of Italian fighters; it only shows that Italian fighting and opera bouffe were often closely related.
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In Paraguay a certain opera bouffe element, together with a series of grimly farcical incidents, continually mingled themselves with some of the darkest tragedies that have been known in any age.
From South America by Koebel, W. H. (William Henry)
