opera bouffe
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A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1894 the U.S. struck him as "a grand opera bouffe of absolutely daft or imbecile human beings."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a fantastic, arrogant, feather-headed creature, an Alberoni of the opera bouffe.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by McCarthy, Justin
