buffa
AmericanEtymology
Origin of buffa
< Italian; feminine of buffo
Example Sentences
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A comic opera ends with a wedding, and our opera buffa is no exception.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
It has more in common with Mozart’s opera buffa than with “Days of Our Lives.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015
Berlusconi turned it into opera buffa, was in office longer than any other Italian Prime Minister, and ended up in court.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 22, 2015
As all the cast take up her line, this passage is more reminiscent of choral music for church than the burlesque of opera buffa.
From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2013
He had just undertaken the uncongenial and now hateful task of composing an opera buffa entitled, Un Giorno di Regno; and, as might have been expected, this work was somewhat deficient in comedy.
From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Edwards, Henry Sutherland
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