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
He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling.
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After dabbling without much success with ballet scores, he turned to opera bouffe, managed to get The Village Soothsayer produced at Fontainebleau to Louis XV's praise.
From Time Magazine Archive
His tastes led more in the direction of the opera bouffe "and he delighted in Offenbach because he said that the operas made him laugh."
From Time Magazine Archive
At least it was different from anything we had had lately—and perhaps not at all opera bouffe, either.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
