opera bouffe
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General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics.
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That was Act I of the opera bouffe, and there were some who cheered.
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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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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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I'm beyond the age of opera bouffe weddings,—I don't vision myself coming down a white-ribboned aisle with wobbly knees, covered with orange blossoms and gooseflesh!
From Jane Journeys On by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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