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Meanings of opera bouffe in English
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Examples for "bouffe"
Examples for "bouffe"
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But what does he intend doing once he finishes this opéra-bouffe affair?
2
Raymond Bonheur cursed wildly and tousled his hair like a bouffe artist.
3
Needless to say, the whole opera-bouffe affair was promptly disavowed by the higher authorities.
4
A mere outline of what followed reads like the scenario of an opera bouffe.
5
And the opera bouffe of "saving our form of government" was staged.
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Somehow the whole scene reminded him of one in a comic opera.
2
There is a certain reasonableness in the schemes of every comic opera.
3
And taking the comic opera he threw it on the dull fire.
4
It was comic opera, but the tinge of melodrama was not absent.
5
Certainly, no such blood-curdling ruffian has been seen out of comic opera.
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This changed the scene to the " opera comique."
2
Do you imagine that I would write an opera comique in the same manner as an opera seria?
3
He haf found him when he was a child-derorangoutang-undhe was child and brother and opera comique all round to Bertran.
4
In 1858 he made his first essay in opera comique, and produced "Le Médecin malgré lui," which met with remarkable success.
5
Daniel François Esprit Auber, one of the most prominent representatives of the opera comique, was born at Caen, in Normandy, Jan. 29, 1784.
Usage of opera bouffe in English
1
A mere outline of what followed reads like the scenario of an opera bouffe.
2
And the opera bouffe of "saving our form of government" was staged.
3
So Verdi was given an order for an opera bouffe.
4
All this is not opera bouffe, but serious history.
5
It's too late for us to attempt to take it without its possibilities of opera bouffe.
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But the opera bouffe was taking shape.
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This opera bouffe performance ended by each monarch giving the other "the lie in the throat."
8
It's grandstand politics; opera bouffe.
9
Being asked to write an opera bouffe for the carnival at Munich, he agreed, and again met with success.
10
He had builded an Empire for an opera bouffe people, and he was resolved to maintain it at any cost.
11
An opera bouffe hold-up.
12
In its better works gag is not tolerated, although free range is accorded it in productions of the opera bouffe and vaudeville class.
13
It seemed like an opera bouffe, the real thing, this motley array of brigands, all trying to maintain under difficulties the grave Spanish exterior.
14
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.
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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.
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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.