Word: buffa
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...This short hepcat opera buffa is a boffola," caroled Variety in its review of archy and mehitabel. Set to jazzy, tricky but agreeable music by George (Tubby the Tuba) Kleinsinger, the hard knocks and good times of Shinbone Alley came to life last week at Manhattan's Town Hall, providing the music season's pleasantest half hour...
...Charivari, according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, is "a crude music made in derision of incongruous marriages." Composer-librettist-conductor Peter Westergaard has expanded this into a masque-like opera buffa that bubbles over with finess...
...premier of "Charivari," an opera buffa by Peter Westergaard '53, will be the feature attraction in the Harvard Radcliffe Music Club's concert at Paine Hall at 8:30 tonight...
Composer Foss hoped his opera had "the air of Mozartean opera buffa." Bright, inventive and folk-tuny, his score had a good deal of the air of Calaveras County as well as a Mozartean pace...
...production of the series. He and his troupe ought now to struggle for the facilities to do more frequent productions, watching the quality all the while. With this first success in Opera Seria (in which, incidentally, the English translation went much better than it did in their recent Opera Buffa success, "Figaro") they might try next "La Clemenza di Tito," another Mozart work in the form and the last opera he wrote. Perhaps they might experiment with Berlioz, Giordano's "Andrea Chenier," or something very recent. If they go about their work as thoroughly and sincerely as they...