farcical opera

It is that doughty and camp venue that POP sometimes uses for endearingly low-budget and often farcical opera productions, but with high musical standards.

It is the farcical opera exposing, through a sublime Mozartean lyricism, a rawness and richness of feeling that was entirely new to the lyric stage.

Lord Byron wrote the following in 1811 on Moore’s farcical opera:— “Good plays are scarce; So Moore writes farce; The poet’s fame grows brittle— We knew before That Little’s Moore, But now ’tis Moore that’s Little.”

I admire the first sincerely, and in turn call upon you to admire the following on Anacreon Moore's new operatic farce2, or farcical opera—call it which you will: Good plays are scarce, So Moore writes Farce; Is Fame like his so brittle?