opera comique

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Let us sing, drink and embrace, like the chorus of an opera comique.

From Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings by Sandars, Mary F. (Mary Frances)

Opera comique is not synonymous with comic opera, for the plot of opera comique is as often serious as not.

From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson

"Fra Diavolo," opera comique, in three acts, words by Scribe, was first produced at the Opera Comique, Paris, Jan.

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

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

He haf found him when he was a child—der orang-outang—und he was child und brother und opera comique all round to Betran.

From Life's Handicap by Kipling, Rudyard