opera bouffe
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The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse.
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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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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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General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics.
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As we go we carry with us a pleasant noise of laughter and light speech, and some one will be always breaking out into a bar or two of opera bouffe.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
