Opéra bouffon

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Opéra bouffon (French pronunciation:

opéras comiques having Italianate or near-farcical plots.[1]

The term was also later used by

Orphée aux enfers, Le pont des soupirs, Geneviève de Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils[2]), and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique and opéra bouffe.[3]

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0
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  2. ^ Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils (Offenbach): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
  3. ^ Notably André-Guillaume Contant d'Orville [fr] (Histoire de l'opéra bouffon, Amsterdam 1768, Vol. I and Vol. II) used the term as a synonym for opéra comique (Bartlet).
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