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.

The line between light opera and other recent forms is difficult to draw.

He then quit his law practice to produce light opera.

He would probably have made of it a charming light English opera.

However, the rising costs of mounting professional light opera without any government support eventually became too much for the company.

Hall continued to be a favorite in comic and light operas around the country until 1890.

He was asked to select a piece "from which students would learn the craft of worthwhile light opera."

She worries that strangers will line up at the door demanding to see light opera.

In the early 1930s, Leeds sang light opera on the radio.

Gilbert proposed a Venetian setting for the new light opera.

May toured in America for several years in light opera.