opera buffa
Example Sentences
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A comic opera ends with a wedding, and our opera buffa is no exception.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
“It’s a polystylistic opera,” he added, referring to the score’s combination of tropes from severe opera seria and jovial opera buffa, added to orchestrations that recall religious music.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021
It has more in common with Mozart’s opera buffa than with “Days of Our Lives.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015
Berlusconi turned it into opera buffa, was in office longer than any other Italian Prime Minister, and ended up in court.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2015
It was not till some years later that recitative acquired sufficient flexibility to fit itself into the plan of the rapidly growing opera buffa.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
