opera comique
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Opera comique is not synonymous with comic opera, for the plot of opera comique is as often serious as not.
From Music Notation and Terminology by Gehrkens, Karl Wilson
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
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)
Pretty well everything was acted at the theatre of Quiquendone; but the opera and the opera comique were especially patronized.
From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Verne, Jules
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)
