opera bouffe
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The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse.
From Time Magazine Archive
A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
That was Act I of the opera bouffe, and there were some who cheered.
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He was a fantastic, arrogant, feather-headed creature, an Alberoni of the opera bouffe.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by McCarthy, Justin
