comic opera
opera bouffe
bouffe
opera comique

Can one really write a great comic opera on this subject?

After many meetings, we hit upon the idea of writing it as a comic opera.

So the merry comic opera went along almost to its end.

The strong success of this piece encouraged him to continue to present comic opera.

In one sense, the whole affair is a corporate comic opera.

Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy.

It is considered one of the first Italian comic operas.

Somehow the whole scene reminded him of one in a comic opera.

He finds it hard to believe the work was intended as a comic opera.

He would later return to many of these as source material for his plays and comic operas.