opera bouffe
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That was Act I of the opera bouffe, and there were some who cheered.
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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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Jovial, pretty and full of technical traps, the Rossini-influenced work sends the solo violin scampering like the hero of some demonic opera bouffe.
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In Los Angeles, Peruvian Songbird Yma Sumac, 35, exercising all the resources of her four-octave voice, starred in a choice bit of opera bouffe in three acts.
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But that is your illustration; I would rather say opera bouffe, which is probably the truest copy of Life—if we were limited to one kind.
From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird
