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Meanings of opera comique in English

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òpera bufa

Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken.

òpera bufa
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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?
Foundation and Empire
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Raymond Bonheur cursed wildly and tousled his hair like a bouffe artist.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 / Little J...
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Needless to say, the whole opera-bouffe affair was promptly disavowed by the higher authorities.
Fighting in Flanders
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A mere outline of what followed reads like the scenario of an opera bouffe.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
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And the opera bouffe of "saving our form of government" was staged.
The Centralia Conspiracy
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Somehow the whole scene reminded him of one in a comic opera.
Beatrice
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There is a certain reasonableness in the schemes of every comic opera.
Gossamer
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And taking the comic opera he threw it on the dull fire.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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It was comic opera, but the tinge of melodrama was not absent.
The Half-Hearted
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Certainly, no such blood-curdling ruffian has been seen out of comic opera.
The Jewel City
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A mere outline of what followed reads like the scenario of an opera bouffe.
Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynast...
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And the opera bouffe of "saving our form of government" was staged.
The Centralia Conspiracy
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So Verdi was given an order for an opera bouffe.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 / Little J...
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All this is not opera bouffe, but serious history.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled Nort...
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It's too late for us to attempt to take it without its possibilities of opera bouffe.
The Letter of the Contract
Usage of opera comique in English
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This changed the scene to the " opera comique."
In the Heart of Africa
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Do you imagine that I would write an opera comique in the same manner as an opera seria?
Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
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He haf found him when he was a child-derorangoutang-undhe was child and brother and opera comique all round to Bertran.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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In 1858 he made his first essay in opera comique, and produced "Le Médecin malgré lui," which met with remarkable success.
The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Compose...
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Daniel François Esprit Auber, one of the most prominent representatives of the opera comique, was born at Caen, in Normandy, Jan. 29, 1784.
The Standard Operas: Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Compose...
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The two last named were the ancestors of the present Opera Comique.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1...
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Do you know what I did that evening, after the Opera Comique?
Camille
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A few days later there was a great performance at the Opera Comique.
Camille
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At the Opera Comique there was represented in 1861 Royal-Cravate, written by him.
Zibeline — Volume 1
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Opera Comique, making of marriages at the; artists of the.
My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
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They went to plays together and sometimes to the gallery of the Opera Comique.
Of Human Bondage
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It was at the Opera Comique, two years ago; I was with Ernest de -.
Camille
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The most delightful theater in the world-theOpera Comique.
The Black Robe
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The Opera Comique receives nearly ten thousand pounds a-year, the Français eight, the Odeon four.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1...
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I know; heard all the great voices for twenty years; a violin in the Opera Comique.
The Happy End
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Denries, from the Opera Comique in Paris, and Madame Croiza, from the opera in Paris, sang.
'My Beloved Poilus'
Translations for opera comique