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- noun Plural form of
bouffe .
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These are rather light comic operas than true _opéras-bouffes_, but if there is an elevation in the style of the music, there is an emphatic falling off in the quality of the words.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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We shall find the dramatization of the chatter of the street and the apparition of types familiar to the farcical comedies and operas bouffes of later days.
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His innumerable opéras bouffes scarcely come within the scope of this work, but his posthumous opéra comique, 'Les Contes d'Hoffman
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. J. A. [Commentator] Fuller-Maitland 1892
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A few more remarks were made, and then the party adjourned to a neighbouring 'pub.' to talk of _opéra bouffes_ and bad business.
A Mummer's Wife 1892
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No one is likely to listen to the trio at the culmination of the third act (that dealing with the fate of a singer's daughter) without realizing what a really admirable power of expression was that which Offenbach, for reasons explained by the spirit of the times and his own moral nature, chose to squander so many years on his opéras bouffes.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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She added that she had it in Lagny: but that she afterwards wore the sword which had been taken from a Burgundian, which was a good sword for war and gave good strokes (_gallice, de bonnes bouffes_ and _de bons torchons_).
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Urwintore's production of The Investigation was developed in 2005 and has been performed in Butare and Kigali, Rwanda, and at the Festival Emulation, Liege; the Théâtre des bouffes du Nord, Paris; and at the Culture Center of Ans, Belgium.
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