opera bouffe
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Jovial, pretty and full of technical traps, the Rossini-influenced work sends the solo violin scampering like the hero of some demonic 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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But that is your illustration; I would rather say opera bouffe, which is probably the truest copy of Life—if we were limited to one kind.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer
