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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...
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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...
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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...
- 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...
- list
provides a
guide to
opera composers, as
determined by
their presence on a
majority of
compiled lists of
significant opera composers. (See the "Lists...
- reads: At Xmas will be
produced at the
Gaiety Theatre, a new and
original Opera Bouffe in English, by W. S. Gilbert, Esq., &
Arthur ****van, Esq. does the...
- opérette
bouffe, and
there is a
single 'opérette fantastique'.
There are 24
opéras comiques, and 24
opéras bouffes,
together with 2 '
opéras bouffes féeries'...
