opera bouffe
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Young Menotti nowhere showed astonishing originality, certainly showed he could write better opera bouffe than any other man alive.
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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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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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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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We seem to be at the opera bouffe.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
