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Definition of Opera comique

1. Noun. Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Opera Comique

Literary usage of Opera comique

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Opera: A Sketch of the Development of Opera : with Full Descriptions of by Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1897)
"... opera comique, AND SINGSPIEL PERGOLESI—ROUSSEAU—MONSIGNY—GRETRY— CIMAROSA—MILLER WHILE Gluck was altering the course of musical history in Vienna, ..."

2. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg (1913)
"CHAPTER IX OP£RA COMIQUE '""TO most persons "opera comique" means simply 1 comic opera. ... "Opera bouffe" even is many degrees below "opera comique. ..."

3. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"Then began the marvellously fruitful period of production of dramatic works by this illustrious composer: — La Double Echelle, opera-comique, ..."

4. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"But, it may be said, the managerial methods of procedure, the " orders of the day " which governed the early productions at the opera comique, continued in ..."

5. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"This little work, full of vivacity, grace and gaiety, is considered the first attempt at French opera comique, and its appearance marked an important date ..."

6. My Recollections by Jules Massenet, Harry Villiers Barnett (1919)
"CHAPTER XV THE ABBE PREVOST AT THE OPERA-COMIQUE One autumn morning in 18811 ... Carvalho, the director of the Opera-Comique, had entrusted to me the three ..."

7. My Recollections by Jules Massenet, Harry Villiers Barnett (1919)
"CHAPTER XV THE ABBE PREVOST AT THE OPERA-COMIQUE One autumn morning in 18811 ... Carvalho, the director of the Opera-Comique, had entrusted to me the three ..."

8. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1859)
"The opera comique is quite fortunate. It has discovered two new tenors in the Medical School here, and another in one of the ..."

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