Meanings of opéra bouffe in English

A mere outline of what followed reads like the scenario of an opera bouffe.

And the opera bouffe of "saving our form of government" was staged.

So Verdi was given an order for an opera bouffe.

All this is not opera bouffe, but serious history.

It's too late for us to attempt to take it without its possibilities of opera bouffe.

But the opera bouffe was taking shape.

This opera bouffe performance ended by each monarch giving the other "the lie in the throat."

It's grandstand politics; opera bouffe.

Being asked to write an opera bouffe for the carnival at Munich, he agreed, and again met with success.

He had builded an Empire for an opera bouffe people, and he was resolved to maintain it at any cost.

An opera bouffe hold-up.

In its better works gag is not tolerated, although free range is accorded it in productions of the opera bouffe and vaudeville class.

It seemed like an opera bouffe, the real thing, this motley array of brigands, all trying to maintain under difficulties the grave Spanish exterior.

If we go in for an institution with qualities of opera bouffe isn't it well to do it light-heartedly?-oras light-heartedlyas we can.

Every thing in life is reversed, as in opera bouffe, and turned topsy-turvy, so that paradox takes the place of the natural order of things.

He was put into a ballet by a Portuguese composer and made the butt of a French opera bouffe writer, J. J. Debillement, in 1871.