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

Against divided counsels would be one mind, which, with reenforcements of the faithful from Asia Minor, would send the remnants of the opéra bouffe invasion flying back over their passes.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)