They would offer a much more complete picture of the composer than his frothy buffo image suggests.

Sally's songs are written in an opera buffo style.

He played a range of buffo parts in operas, at Glyndebourne and internationally.

Admired for his comedic skills, he specialized in the tenor buffo repertoire.

Delphini, a celebrated buffo, became manager in 1788 and produced a spectacle including a real stag-hunt.

He specialized in the buffo repertoire and was most often heard in comprimario roles.

This performance showed him as "A one-time lyric baritone graduated into a superb buffo".

We put him in with a nephew of mine, Jimmy Buffo, who had been a linebacker in college.

A fine actor with a good sense of comic timing, he also excelled in the basso buffo repertoire.

He went on to sing more than thirty-two more roles with the company over the next fifteen years, mostly in buffo parts.

The buffo is particularly good, he's called Benucci."

They saw it as an "Americanata," a kind of buffo Americanization of their work.

It can usually be distinguished from tragic operas or melodramas by the presence of a basso buffo.

He was particularly known for his portrayal of buffo roles and for his work in 20th century operas.

He spent the next 23 years at the Met appearing in a variety of parts from supporting tenor buffo roles to leading roles.

Jim Boy, a black American jazz singer (buffo tenor)

The poet Prosdocimo (baritone) is searching for a plot for a drama buffo.

The music is in two verses in a buffo style, with yodeling in the refrain.

He continued to perform there through 1848 as Joseph Nork, mostly in buffo and comprimario roles.

Ever the clown, he gave a performance, a kind of variation of "Mistero Buffo."

This had two buffo characters, two nobles and two "in between" characters.

Other categories are soubrette, heldentenor, coloratura, and basso buffo.

His politics became increasingly radical, and he did not appear again on television in his country until 1977, when "Mistero Buffo" was first broadcast there.

Years ago, the Vatican called "Mistero Buffo" the "most blasphemous show in the history of television."

In particular, Paisiello and his followers were opposed to the use of basso buffo, which is common in comic opera.