How To Use Comic opera In A Sentence
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There's been an interesting mini-trend in operatic directing in the past few months: updating 19th-century comic operas to World War II settings.
We'll Meet Again
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Now passed a guard in the romantic cloak of a brigand in comic opera and a peaked cap like that of an _alguacil_.
The Magician
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= Pe´richole = (_La_), the heroine of Offenbach’s comic opera (_opera bouffe_) of that name.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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His writings, which include more than thirty-five comedies, farces, adaptations, comic operas, and other light-hearted stage entertainments, were collected in 1798.
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The plot device of financial anonymity is as old as comic opera and it is always a winner.
Times, Sunday Times
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The comic opera aspect of Berlusconi that so exasperates critics invites comparisons with Mussolini, but the real similarity is that both men promoted a kind of "anti-politics.
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The middle classes preferred the German light or comic operas of Nicolai and Lortzing to the French or Italian heroic works.
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They are men and women in blue, numbering 15, and all set to treat you to a feast of a comic opera.
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A _comic opera_ is a humorous opera, the plot providing many amusing situations and the whole ending happily.
Music Notation and Terminology
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The plot device of financial anonymity is as old as comic opera and it is always a winner.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cellier wrote numerous comic operas, vaudevilles, one grand opera, The Masque of Pandora, and a few instrumental works.
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Verdi's dramas were often violent and bloody, from ‘Otello’ - the consummation of tragic opera - to his only comic opera ‘Falstaff’ which is perfection of the genre.
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It's on those three Mozart collaborations - the greatest comic operas ever written - that Da Ponte's fame rests.
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A bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, Gundry published Songs and dances of Cornwall in 1966, and used Cornish subjects, and folk-song material, in his operas The tinners of Cornwall and the comic opera The logan rock.
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The comic opera of Gilbert and Sullivan is a regular feature on the Alexandra's varied programme.
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She started well as a figurante in a comic opera company up-town, but from that she dropped to a female minstrel troupe in the Bowery, and now, Lewy Tusch told Cordelia, she was "tooing ter skirt-tance in ter pickernic parks for ter sick-baby fund, ant passin 'ter hat arount afterwarts.
Different Girls
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There's a certain subset of opera fans who dismiss Rossini comic operas with a haughty wave.
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The comic opera of Gilbert and Sullivan is a regular feature on the Alexandra's varied programme.
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I doubt it too; it is simply too good comic opera to be true.
