opera bouffe
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On Tiepolo's canvases, every scene became a tableau as lively as any opera bouffe, his every room a stage across which strutted the likes of Orpheus, Eurydice, Scipio, Antony and Cleopatra.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Young Menotti nowhere showed astonishing originality, certainly showed he could write better opera bouffe than any other man alive.
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
If Ethel were a ballet-dancer, or had taken to opera bouffe, she would be much more entertaining!
From Brooke's Daughter A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
