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comic opera

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comic opera
n.
An opera or operetta with a humorous plot, generally spoken dialogue, and usually a happy ending. Also called bouffe.
comic opera
n
(Performing Arts / Theatre) a play largely set to music, employing comic effects or situations See also opéra bouffe, opera buffa
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Noun1.comic opera - opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken
bouffe, opera bouffe, opera comique
opera - a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
light opera, operetta - a short amusing opera
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comic opera n → opera buffa
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I have always had a great love for the absolutely unreal, the purely fanciful in all the arts, as well as of the absolutely real; I like the one on a far lower plane than the other, but it delights me, as a pantomime at a theatre does, or a comic opera, which has its being wholly outside the realm of the probabilities.
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She was modern to the soles of her dainty little high-heeled shoes, frankly fond of dress and of pleasure, devoted to tennis and to comic opera, delighted with a dance, which came her way only too seldom, longing ever for some new excitement, and yet behind all this lighter side of her character a thoroughly good, healthy-minded English girl, the life and soul of the house, and the idol of her sister and her father.
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This comic opera phase came to a head in the famous Drawbaugh case, which lasted for nearly four years, and filled ten thousand pages with its evidence.
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