opera bouffe
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Jovial, pretty and full of technical traps, the Rossini-influenced work sends the solo violin scampering like the hero of some demonic opera bouffe.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1894 the U.S. struck him as "a grand opera bouffe of absolutely daft or imbecile human beings."
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He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they figure nevertheless in scene after scene of political opera bouffe which even the most gifted satirist would be proud to have invented.
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In Paraguay a certain opera bouffe element, together with a series of grimly farcical incidents, continually mingled themselves with some of the darkest tragedies that have been known in any age.
From South America by W. H. (William Henry) Koebel
