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
For Currentzis, the work’s female characters reflect different styles of female singer: Donna Anna, for example, seems to have arrived from an opera seria and Zerlina, a peasant girl, from an opera buffa.
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
Mozart borrowed the underlying idea of the opera buffa, applied it to the form of the Singspiel, which he kept intact, and produced a work which succeeded in revolutionising the history of German opera.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.
