Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken.
1A mere outline of what followed reads like the scenario of an opera bouffe.
2And the opera bouffe of "saving our form of government" was staged.
3So Verdi was given an order for an opera bouffe.
4All this is not opera bouffe, but serious history.
5It's too late for us to attempt to take it without its possibilities of opera bouffe.
6But the opera bouffe was taking shape.
7This opera bouffe performance ended by each monarch giving the other "the lie in the throat."
8It's grandstand politics; opera bouffe.
9Being asked to write an opera bouffe for the carnival at Munich, he agreed, and again met with success.
10He had builded an Empire for an opera bouffe people, and he was resolved to maintain it at any cost.
12In its better works gag is not tolerated, although free range is accorded it in productions of the opera bouffe and vaudeville class.
13It seemed like an opera bouffe, the real thing, this motley array of brigands, all trying to maintain under difficulties the grave Spanish exterior.
14If 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.
15Every 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.
16He was put into a ballet by a Portuguese composer and made the butt of a French opera bouffe writer, J. J. Debillement, in 1871.
Translations for opera bouffe