opera bouffe
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Young Menotti nowhere showed astonishing originality, certainly showed he could write better opera bouffe than any other man alive.
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The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse.
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In Los Angeles, Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, 35, exercising all the resources of her four-octave voice, starred in a choice bit of opera bouffe in three acts.
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In 1894 the U.S. struck him as "a grand opera bouffe of absolutely daft or imbecile human beings."
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It was the Italian opera bouffe on the most charming stage in the world.
From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Sedgwick, Henry Dwight
