opera buffa
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A comic opera ends with a wedding, and our opera buffa is no exception.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
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
I consider that the very essence of opera buffa lies in this incursion of the Fanciful-Fantastic, the preposterous and absurd, into actual, everyday life, and the incongruities that result.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
