Opera buffa (Italian: [ˈɔːpera ˈbuffa], "comic opera"; pl.: opere buffe) is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic...

that both opera buffa and opera seria had strayed too far from what opera should really be, and seemed unnatural. The jokes of opera buffa were threadbare...

his early works follow the traditional forms of the Italian opera seria and opera buffa as well as the German Singspiel. In his maturity, according to...

of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria. It...

dramma giocoso and an opera buffa; Mozart himself called the work an opera buffa. McClymonds, Marita P and Heartz, Daniel: "Opera seria" in The New Grove...

seria) and comic opera (opera buffa), as well as a hybrid between the two: the dramma giocoso. As a multidisciplinary genre, opera brings together music...

comic genre of opera buffa born in Naples and it began to spread throughout Italy after 1730. Opera buffa was distinguished from opera seria by numerous...

was a member of the Neapolitan school of opera composers. He composed fifty-one operas, particularly opera buffa. Born in Verona, Gazzaniga was initially...

many of the opera buffas that followed it, including those of Mozart. 1733 Hippolyte et Aricie (Jean-Philippe Rameau). Rameau's first opera caused great...

comedy in Baroque-era opera was reserved for what came to be called opera buffa. Before such elements were forced out of opera seria, many libretti had...