opera bouffe
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General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics.
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.
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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.
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.
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Somehow, it seemed rather fascinating to have the opera bouffe side of the Black Republic presented to us.
From The Social Gangster by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
