opera buffa

This obscure and hilariously outrageous takeoff on the genre of Italian opera buffa, written in 1846, turned out to be the hit of the weekend.

A comic opera ends with a wedding, and our opera buffa is no exception.

A comic opera ends with a wedding, and our opera buffa is no exception.

The casual misogyny of Strauss’s only opera buffa — a work that unfolds like a love letter to Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti — was hardly a point of controversy when it premiered in Dresden in 1935.

It turns out that this isn’t really tragedy or farce, grand opera or opera buffa: it’s corporate promotion.