opera bouffe
Example Sentences
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Sardinian Brigade does not discredit the bravery of Italian fighters; it only shows that Italian fighting and opera bouffe were often closely related.
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Young Menotti nowhere showed astonishing originality, certainly showed he could write better opera bouffe than any other man alive.
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That was Act I of the opera bouffe, and there were some who cheered.
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In 1894 the U.S. struck him as "a grand opera bouffe of absolutely daft or imbecile human beings."
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‘He looks like a brigand in opera bouffe.’
From Jerry by Webster, Jean
