opera comique

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We sandwiched comedy, drama, tragedy, and farce, and interlarded the mixture with Victor Herbert and Oscar Hammerstein's opera comique and May Irwin coon songs.

From A Pirate of Parts by Neville, Richard

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)

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

"Mignon," an opera comique in three acts, words by Barbier and Carré, the subject taken from Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister," was first produced at the Opera Comique, Paris, Nov.

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

Can't you get Gilbert to do a Home Rule opera comique?

From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John