opera buffa
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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 turns out that this isn’t really tragedy or farce, grand opera or opera buffa: it’s corporate promotion.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021
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
At twenty-one he had already written his “Tancredi” and the opera buffa, “The Italians in Algiers.”
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
