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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sardinian Brigade does not discredit the bravery of Italian fighters; it only shows that Italian fighting and opera bouffe were often closely related.
From Time Magazine Archive
A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe.
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That was Act I of the opera bouffe, and there were some who cheered.
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Somehow, it seemed rather fascinating to have the opera bouffe side of the Black Republic presented to us.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
