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Opera buffa (Italian: [
ˈɔːpera ˈbuffa], "comic
opera"; pl.:
opere buffe) is a
genre of
opera. It was
first used as an
informal description of
Italian comic...
- that both
opera buffa and
opera seria had stra**** too far from what
opera should really be, and
seemed unnatural. The
jokes of
opera buffa were threadbare...
- his
early works follow the
traditional forms of the
Italian opera seria and
opera buffa as well as the
German Singspiel. In his maturity,
according to...
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dramma giocoso and an
opera buffa;
Mozart himself called the work an
opera buffa. McClymonds,
Marita P and Heartz, Daniel: "
Opera seria" in The New Grove...
- of
comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new
operatic genre,
opera buffa,
emerged as an
alternative to
opera seria. It...
- was a
member of the
Neapolitan school of
opera composers. He
composed fifty-one
operas,
particularly opera buffa. Born in Verona,
Gazzaniga was initially...
- po****r
rival to
opera seria was
opera buffa, the 'comic'
opera that took its cue from the
improvisatory commedia dell'arte. An
opera seria had a historical...
- seria) and
comic opera (
opera buffa), as well as a
hybrid between the two: the
dramma giocoso. As a
multidisciplinary genre,
opera brings together music...
- many of the
opera buffas that
followed it,
including those of Mozart. 1733
Hippolyte et
Aricie (Jean-Philippe Rameau). Rameau's
first opera caused great...
- to a peak the
opera buffa tradition he
inherited from
masters such as
Domenico Cimarosa and
Giovanni Paisiello. He also
composed opera seria works such...
