opera bouffe
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After dabbling without much success with ballet scores, he turned to opera bouffe, managed to get The Village Soothsayer produced at Fontainebleau to Louis XV's praise.
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He returned with a big stranger, dressed in an opera bouffe green and yellow uniform, carrying a rifle in a yellow leather sling.
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The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse.
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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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I want the girls to see the opera bouffe; they have never seen it.”
From The Squatter and the Don by C. Loyal
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