opera comique

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Gaveaux’s setting emphasizes that celebration of domestic bliss, in keeping with the conventions of opéra comique.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2017

He had composed his work within the conventions of opéra comique, in which musical numbers are separated by spoken dialogue.

From The Guardian • Jan. 12, 2011

In the season proper Mr. Hammerstein tried to give opéra comique, as he politely called it, though it was largely opéra bouffe, and when the experiment proved a failure he courageously abandoned it.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

Hopper next produced "The Charlatan," a work bordering upon opéra comique in its first version.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

Meyerbeer was far too clever a man to undertake anything he could not carry through successfully, and in these operas he caught the trick of French opéra comique very happily.

From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.