bouffe

Then why demand of Ailes that his opera bouffe company treat you as anything other than an interloper?

This score, the first comic work I ever did, is in a light and easy style which savours of the Italian opera-bouffe.

Altogether this opera bouffe hotel is neither bad nor good, and most confusing as to its personnel and their conduct.

An opera is a musical drama, the higher forms of which are known as grand opera, and the lower or farcical forms as opera bouffe.