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opera bouffe

[op-er-uh boof, op-ruh, aw-pey-ra boof] / ˈɒp ər ə ˈbuf, ˈɒp rə, ɔ peɪ ra ˈbuf /


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Young Menotti nowhere showed astonishing originality, certainly showed he could write better opera bouffe than any other man alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

But they figure nevertheless in scene after scene of political opera bouffe which even the most gifted satirist would be proud to have invented.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In 1894 the U.S. struck him as "a grand opera bouffe of absolutely daft or imbecile human beings."

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)




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