Dramma giocoso (Italian, literally: drama with jokes; plural: drammi giocosi) is a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction...

comedy For example, Don Giovanni is regularly referred to as both a dramma giocoso and an opera buffa; Mozart himself called the work an opera buffa. McClymonds...

his 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra. It is a dramma giocoso blending comedy, melodrama and supernatural elements (although the composer...

a dramma giocoso). By extension, the term came to be used also for the opera or operas which were composed to the libretto, and a variation, dramma in...

original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2011. "Episode Guide: Dramma Giocoso". NBC. Retrieved February 24, 2009. "Weekly Program Rankings". ABC Medianet...

Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage) is a dramma giocoso in two acts, music by Domenico Cimarosa, on a libretto by Giovanni Bertati, based on the...

finta giardiniera 1774–1775 13 January 1775 Salvatortheater, Munich Dramma giocoso. Libretto possibly by Giuseppe Petrosellini (disputed). Later converted...

bontà in trionfo ("Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant") is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo...

often during Carnival. Musically they may have derived from the two-act dramma giocoso, although there were other influences, including the French comédie...

K.135 Score 1774–75 La finta giardiniera (The pretend garden-maid) Dramma giocoso 3 acts Italian Probably Giuseppe Petrosellini 4 soprano, 2 tenor, 1...