There is a serious side to all of this opera bouffe, of course.

Thus was an appropriate libretto suggested for the opera bouffe that followed.

To some analysts, the episode has all the earmarks of opera bouffe.

The theatre specialised in presenting music hall, burlesque and opera bouffe.

"Walker" is the cinema equivalent of opera bouffe.

First time as tragedy, second time as opera bouffe.

Unspoiled, a land of opera bouffe, with old Kalakaua sitting on his golden throne."

It seems almost opera bouffe, a light-hearted satire.

He had builded an Empire for an opera bouffe people, and he was resolved to maintain it at any cost.

If Peruvian politics were beginning to resemble a soap opera, what followed was pure opera bouffe.

"It was an opera bouffe.

The opéra bouffe Gonzague is another essay in the old opera bouffe style.

More Opera Bouffe - Meat Loaf showed that you can't underestimate the power of a sequel.

In many ways Sollers is doing the work of the opera bouffe or drama giocoso in his novels since Women (1983).

Evangeline, Opera Bouffe.

"Italian American Reconciliation" is an unconventional conceit informed by the conventions of grand opera and opera bouffe.

And if sometimes "Seinfeld" has seemed like a morality play without a moral, or a neurotic opera bouffe, that too has given the show its immediacy.

He subsequently toured the provinces with opera and opera bouffe companies, playing the title role in Verdi's Rigoletto, among others.

The opera bouffe was Offenbach's The Grand Duchess at Daly's Theatre in 1937.

Foreign operas were popular among the upper-class throughout the 19th century, while other styles of musical theater included operettas, ballad operas and the opera bouffe.

The nursemaid is the employee of Rose d'Ete, a famous Parision opera bouffe prima donna, who supposedly now has the child.

He played more than 500 roles in a career that lasted more than fify years, and embraced the classics, farce, opera bouffe, radio, films and television.

Mr. Apple hurls these mythic folks at one another, headed for a climax that's part opera bouffe and part Grand Guignol.

The undancerly wrestling match at times takes on aspects of an opera bouffe, but for many in the dance world too much is at stake for any laughter.

The Islanders, a proud team that won the Stanley Cup four times from 1980 to 1983, find themselves in a sports opera bouffe, a landlord-tenant dispute gone wacky.