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Definition of Opera bouffe
1. Noun. Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken.
Generic synonyms: Opera
Specialized synonyms: Light Opera, Operetta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opera Bouffe
Literary usage of Opera bouffe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music (1899)
"1758—"II Protettore Alia Moda," opera bouffe in three acts. "La Costanza Trionfante,"
an opera in three acts. These works are only known to me through the ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"(2) Prince Bluth is a character in J. KINGDOM'S '•• Three Princes' (д.».).
Blush Hose. An opera-bouffe, music by Offenbach, libretto by G. ..."
3. Jonathan and His Continent: Rambles Through American Society by Max O'Rell, Jack Allyn (1889)
"Scenes for an Opera- Bouffe,—An Amateur Dentist. SI have said elsewhere, each
State of the Union makes its own laws. The result is, that a thing which is ..."
4. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"opera bouffe in 3 acts (Italian words). 87, Mitridate, Re di Ponto. ... opera bouffe
in 3 acte (German and Italian words). 208, 11 КС Pastore. ..."
5. The Theatres of Paris by Brander Matthews (1880)
"It is perhaps safer to say that the rage for opera bouffe having passed away,
... opera bouffe was a compound of comic opera and of comic drama. ..."
6. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by William H. Steele, Charles Elliott Fitch (1900)
"I know what opera-bouffe is. I have been there. It is suggestive of blazing
lights, somewhat scanty attire, and a good deal of jolly merriment. ..."
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