opera comique

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The Italian comedy, now united with their opera comique, is their most perfect diversion; but alas! harlequin, my dear favourite harlequin, my passion, makes me more melancholy than cheerful.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

Do you imagine that I would write an opera comique in the same manner as an opera seria?

From Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words by Kerst, Friedrich

Let us sing, drink and embrace, like the chorus of an opera comique.

From Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings by Sandars, Mary F. (Mary Frances)

Daniel François Esprit Auber, one of the most prominent representatives of the opera comique, was born at Caen, in Normandy, Jan.

From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by Upton, George P. (George Putnam)

I have heard the "Miserere" in the Sistine Chapel, and in comparison with the raising of the flag over the city of Santiago it was opera comique.

From The Surrender of Santiago An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898 by Norris, Frank