comic opera
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Hemingway once wrote, “And Barcelona. You should see Barcelona. It is all still comic opera… Barcelona makes you laugh.”
From Salon • Dec. 6, 2025
In "La Fille du Regiment," Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera, the Canadian-American actress plays the Duchess of Krakenthorp, who reluctantly marries off her son.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
In 2014, the estate blocked Cooper’s attempt to develop a show out of a lost comic opera by Chandler, which Cooper had discovered.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
In these times, performing, even — or especially — in a comic opera, becomes a calling, and as she speaks, Syniakova’s heightened emotion takes an evangelical tone.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2022
“It’s like a comic opera to-day. Maybe I'm hungry.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
