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Opéra bouffe (French pronunciation: [
ɔpeʁa buf], plural:
opéras bouffes) is a
genre of mid- to late 19th-century
French operetta,
closely ****ociated with...
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confused with the
French opéra comique and
opéra bouffe.
Comic characters had been a part of
opera until the
early 18th century, when
opera buffa began to emerge...
- L'étoile is an
opéra bouffe in
three acts by
Emmanuel Chabrier with a
libretto by Eugène
Leterrier and
Albert Vanloo.
Chabrier met his
librettists at the...
- Hélène (French pronunciation: [la bɛl elɛn], The
Beautiful Helen) is an
opéra bouffe in
three acts, with
music by
Jacques Offenbach and
words by
Henri Meilhac...
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sense of the word.
Florimond Hervé is
credited as the
inventor of
French opéra bouffe, or opérette.
Working on the same model,
Jacques Offenbach quickly surp****ed...
- Tiresias) is an
opéra bouffe by
Francis Poulenc, in a
prologue and two acts
based on the
eponymous play by
Guillaume Apollinaire. The
opera was
written in...
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particular theatre, for
example opéra comique at the
theatre of the same name, or
opéra bouffe at the Théâtre des
Bouffes Parisiens. This list does not...
- was
another work that
leaned more to
romantic comic opera than to the more
ebullient opéra bouffe. It was well received, but has been less
often revived...
- opérette
bouffe, and
there is a
single 'opérette fantastique'.
There are 24
opéras comiques, and 24
opéras bouffes,
together with 2 '
opéras bouffes féeries'...
- took
itself too seriously. The 1860s saw an
unbroken series of
eight opéras bouffes by Halévy,
Meilhac and Offenbach. They
started with a
notable success...
