opera buffa
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Felice Romani’s libretto also has an unusual—rather meta—construction: It includes a poet who is trying to write an opera buffa and narrates the events, a nod to Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
This obscure and hilariously outrageous takeoff on the genre of Italian opera buffa, written in 1846, turned out to be the hit of the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2024
It has more in common with Mozart’s opera buffa than with “Days of Our Lives.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2015
Berlusconi turned it into opera buffa, was in office longer than any other Italian Prime Minister, and ended up in court.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 22, 2015
After these first experiments there seems to have been no attempt made to resuscitate opera buffa until the rise of the Neapolitan school in the following century.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
