opera comique

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Can't you get Gilbert to do a Home Rule opera comique?

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John

The attendant attempted to push it on behind, at the same time he gave it a sharp blow with his sheathed sword; this changed the scene to the "opera comique."

From The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

"La Dame Blanche," opera comique in three acts, words by Scribe, adapted from Walter Scott's novels, "The Monastery" and "Guy Mannering," was first produced at the Opera Comique, Dec.

From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

We sandwiched comedy, drama, tragedy, and farce, and interlarded the mixture with Victor Herbert and Oscar Hammerstein's opera comique and May Irwin coon songs.

From A Pirate of Parts by Neville, Richard

This changed the scene to the "opera comique."

From In the Heart of Africa by Baker, Samuel White, Sir