intermezzi
- plural of intermezzo.
Example Sentences
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Performers got to rest during the intermezzi between acts, when a ballet or brief comic opera kept the show going.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2014
This confusion of Poliziano's "Orfeo" with spoken drama interspersed with intermezzi is unfortunate.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
There were no intermezzi at the representation of this lyric drama.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
He became 186 prominent as one of the early composers of intermezzi and he was employed also to write church music for wedding festivals.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
The second entertainment was a prose comedy of Landi, preceded by a prologue and provided with five intermezzi.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
