opera comique
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Massenet and his librettists softened the bleakness, jiggered the story and tailored the work to the tastes of opéra-comique audiences in Paris for the 1884 premiere.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2012
It was presented here not in its original opéra-comique version from 1797, but in the much later Italian version popularized by Maria Callas, with the original spoken dialogue set to weighty, orchestra-accompanied recitative.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2011
Even when musical taste was most decadent, the works of Gounod, Ambroise Thomas, and Massé, had always upheld the name of French opéra-comique.
From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary
This custom, though sanctioned in opéra-comique, was not permitted or accepted in grand opéra, to which Gounod’s work in the revised form now belongs.
From Style in Singing by Haslam, W. E.
On one side were the partisans of Melody, opéra-comique, the Italians, and, with some effort, of grand opera.
From Musical Memories by Rich, Edwin Gile
