opera bouffe

Example Sentences

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But 2½ hours of teenage insecurities turned into pop opéra bouffe make for a patience-trying endurance test for all but the most tolerant observers.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2019

Then back to one’s seat for diversion in the opportunely unreal world of late 18th-century Viennese opéra bouffe.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2017

That opéra bouffe in six seasons would probably have burned itself into the country’s psyche even without Mr. Gandolfini.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2013

Turner, who exhibited an opéra bouffe appearance but was a slashing and dangerous player, had beaten Bobby in the previous year’s Rosenwald.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

I was then obliged to sing pathetic songs, drinking songs, comic songs, opéra bouffe, English ballads, and then—worse than all—requested to recite some dramatic poetry.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various