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opera bouffe
noun as in comic opera
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Then why demand of Ailes that his opera bouffe company treat you as anything other than an interloper?
This score, the first comic work I ever did, is in a light and easy style which savours of the Italian opera-bouffe.
Altogether this opera bouffe hotel is neither bad nor good, and most confusing as to its personnel and their conduct.
An opera is a musical drama, the higher forms of which are known as grand opera, and the lower or farcical forms as opera bouffe.
What is the difference between grand opera and opera bouffe?
Opera-bouffe and Gilbert and Sullivan are preferred to everything else.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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