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	Opera buffa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Opera buffa (a form of comic opera), also known as Commedia in musica or Commedia per musica, is a genre of opera.
		Comic characters and situations, usually involving servants, had been a part of opera seria until the early 18th century, when comic opera, or "opera buffa", began to emerge as a separate genre.
		Opera buffa by Piero Weiss and Julian Budden, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opera_buffa (1133 words)

	Opera - MSN Encarta
		Opera as a popular entertainment attained its zenith in the 19th and early 20th centuries, after which the disruptive effects of two world wars and far-reaching developments in music itself left opera in a state of fairly arrested development.
		In comic opera, however, singing generally alternates with passages that are half-sung and half-spoken and usually accompanied by a keyboard instrument.
		A form of light, sentimental comic opera that flourished in Paris and Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th centuries came to be called operetta.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570299/Opera.html (1135 words)

	opera. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Officially, French opera began in 1669 with the establishment of the Académie royale de Musique, which was taken over by Jean Baptiste Lully in 1672 after the bankruptcy of its founders.
		The ballad opera eventually led to the singspiel, the German comic opera with spoken dialogue, which was to reach its highest development in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
		These operas, although somewhat limited in melodic invention, fused in their plots the natural and the supernatural and paved the way for the grandiose music dramas of Richard Wagner, who also wrote his own librettos.
	www.bartleby.com /65/op/opera.html (3517 words)

	Opera Buffa - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Opera Buffa (Italian 'comic opera'), type of humorous opera distinct from opera seria, or “serious opera”.
		Rossini's operas were the last and best in the Italian opera buffa (comic opera) style.
		- 18C comic opera: a comic opera of the kind that originated in Italy in the 18th century, using themes or characters from everyday life and usually having a happy ending.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Opera_Buffa.html (137 words)

	Seattle Opera
		He believed an opera was something that happened on a stage in front of an audience, not something that existed on paper.
		In the early days of bel canto opera, there were two kinds of opera: opera seria, which featured noble, heroic characters, a happy ending, and not a trace of humor; and opera buffa, which featured more approachable characters, a happy ending, and lots of humor (unhappy endings became standard much later).
		But ensembles are the lifeblood of comic operas, because nothing expresses mounting confusion, frenzy, and hilarious misunderstanding better than those moments where all the characters are singing at once.
	www.seattleopera.org /operas/2002-2003/don_pasquale/composer.aspx (1845 words)

	Musical Forms - Opera
		French opera, as seen in the tragedies lyriques of Lully, was essentially a court spectacle, predominantly on legendary or mythological themes, and in five acts, with big choral and ceremonial scenes reflecting the magnificence and social order of the age of Louis XIV.
		Lighter forms of opera, such as opera buffa in Italy, opéra comique or comédie mêlée d'ariettes in France, ballad opera or comic opera in England and Singspiel in Germany, came from humble beginnings to flourish alongside opera seria and even to penetrate its substance.
		New operas continue to be composed; but the expense of staging them and the difficulty of reconciling advanced forms of musical utterance with the requirements of the traditional opera house and its audience have induced many composers to prefer chamber opera or other kinds of music theatre susceptible to concert, 'workshop' or experimental production.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/g_opera.html (829 words)

	Cornerstones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In light of the changing times, it is significant that Italian opera buffa, so popular in the latter third of the 18 th century, was coming to a close during Donizetti's lifetime.
		German comic opera didn't really improve terribly with the influx of Jacques Offenbach, who was instrumental in the development of Viennese operetta.
		Like opera itself, commedia dell'arte was introduced abroad as the Italian nobles families began to marry into the royal house of France and their culture came along with them.
	www.operaworld.com /cornerstones/elixir/elixvienna.htm (1879 words)

	Knoxville Opera - Opera 101
		A singer of comic roles (basso-buffo) or a comic opera (opera-buffa).
		Opera seria often used an ensemble of harpsichord and theorbo (member of the lute family).
		Adult Education - From Opera Previews to the Knoxville Opera Guild’s Monday Night Opera series, there is plenty of fun for opera lovers of all ages.
	www.knoxvilleopera.com /101/terms.html (3173 words)

	Serious and Comic Opera in Eighteenth-Century Italy
		Around the year 1740, the line between intermezzi and other forms of comic opera in Italy became very blurred, and it is at this point that the term opera buffa could be applied, mostly to pieces that were not opera seria.
		The opera buffa, like the intermezzo, always featured a leading role in the bass voice, which was practically unheard of in opera seria; on the other hand, castrati were almost never seen in opera buffa.
		The opera seria of the later 1700's and early 1800's underwent many alterations: most notably, the da capo aria lost its preeminence, while more spectacle, grandiose choral and orchestral effects were added to the score, and the boundary between aria and recitative became much less definite.
	www.nthuleen.com /papers/M52opera.html (2059 words)

	Comic Opera, Gilbert and Sullivan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It was a parody of the Grand Opera, "Robert the Devil," with the Daubans and Nellie Farren as the principal attractions.
		The Opera possesses an elegant refinement and a mingling of tears and laughter, together "with a tenderness that is almost pathetic." The cast on this occasion included Marion Hood, who made a sensational success with her dark beauty and her gorgeous voice.
		The Opera was primarily a burlesque of "transpontine" melodrama.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/html/sm_chap24.html (5727 words)

	Comic opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Comic Opera is drived from short entertaining scenes (typically with funny servants) that were played between the acts of serious opera.
		These were found in operas before the mid 17th century.
		The comic opera, or Italian Opera Buffa, is an outgrowth of these scenes and developed as a completely independent genre.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textc/Comicopera.html (83 words)

	Opera
		Opera stems from the courts of Renaissance rulers, who vied with each other in the magnificence of their private and public spectacles.
		The music of Metastasian opera seria was as ritualized as its plots: characters invariably exited the stage at the end of their arias, and the arias were neatly classified according to the mood they illustrated (rage aria, lament, avowal of love, and so on).
		The greatest weakness of opera seria was also its greatest glory: the long da capo arias repeatedly brought the drama to a halt, and yet the opportunities they provided for singers attracted a wide public to this most aristocratic of genres.
	russia-in-us.com /Music/Opera/opera.html (2986 words)

	Origins of Comic Opera
		Comic opera, which was hugely popular in the English theatre during the Edwardian era, traced its origins to Italy in the early eighteenth century.
		Called 'intermezzi', these comic opera interludes soon proved to be the most popular part of the show, so it was inevitable that they would break away from the mainstream and become full operas, of the comic variety, in their own right.
		For the insular British, performances in English were needed and the first presentation of true comic opera in English took place at the Covent Garden with "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein" opening on 18th November 1857.
	www.dgillan.screaming.net /stage/th-musop.html (1000 words)

	Carlisle Floyd - USOperaWeb Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The situations are very comic in themselves, not to mention the behavior of the characters.
		I found out there is a very good reason we haven't had many successful comic operas in the 18th and 19th centuries or even in the 20th century.
		Yet it must be genuinely and inherently comic in terms of the clashes of personalities, in the lines and in the situation itself.
	www.usoperaweb.com /2001/february/jan_int.html (1305 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - Opera Archive
		Part of the style of an opera buffa is to have a comic bass sing lots of words in a rapid-fire patter style, often on one note.
		This opera is in a serious and dramatic style, almost a throw-back to the earlier Baroque era opera seria with its 3-part (A B A) form with added embellishments in the return of the A section and dramatically dotted rhythms in the orchestral accompaniment.
		One of the ways in which a dramatic run is differentiated from a comic patter is as follows: the dramatic run will be melismatic with many notes on one syllable, while comic patter will have many notes, but each one belonging to a different syllable.
	archive.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaTeaching.cgi?i...anguage=1&material_id=111 (2252 words)

	Comics Should Be Good: The Portent #1 - Comic Opera
		In a piece by Gary Cole, Jr., Peter Bergting, writer/artist of The Portent, described his comic as thus, "The story, and the way it’s told, is a bit different from most comics.
		I love the comic book format but the story should be read in one piece.
		Given the fact that I have to eat on occassion, a bi-monthly comic is the only way I can bring out a book at all since I can work on other things during the daylight hours =).
	goodcomics.blogspot.com /2006/02/portent-1-comic-opera.html (913 words)

	Untitled
		Univesity Chapter Comic Opera Guild is a group of students, faculty, and community members who like to get together and socialize, plus put on a show or two.
		Comic Opera Guild has been around for about 25 years and has been intimately involved with the university community, and has had student members from virtually every school.
		The Comic Opera Guild is pleased to announce that we will be presenting Rossini's The Marriage Contract in Ann Arbor/Chelsea in the mid-winter of 2003-04.
	www.umich.edu /~cogum (823 words)

	San Diego Comic Opera Review
		Comic operas abound in examples of brain-numbing confusion over mistaken identities.
		So, comic opera detectives may attempt to ferret out the truth on their own.
		Tom Oberjat is a fabulous comic performer and exhibits a pleasant lyric tenor voice, though he manages it inconsistently.
	www.sandiego-online.com /forums/dance/moon.stm (966 words)

	Soap Opera Comic
		Soap Opera is not part of a series, but I am planning several other comics that, like this one, will be based on short stories I have written.
		The original drawings for this comic were on exhibit in The Map Room in Portland, Maine from November 1, 2003 to January 15, 2004.
		Soap Opera is on sale at a store near you (well, depending on where you live...see the list).
	www.scenerychewer.com /soap.html (167 words)

	MIT pair to premiere comic opera about coyote - MIT News Office
		A "rollicking and sexy farce" is how the creators of "Coyote's Dinner" describe their new one-act comic opera, to be premiered by the MIT Wind Ensemble on Friday, Nov. 30 in Kresge Auditorium.
		The opera centers on their reactions to the drama.
		Ouellette described the opera as being about "exploding both liberal and conservative dogmatism"; Shadle added that it focuses on the interactions between the powerless and the powerful.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2001/coyote-1114.html (756 words)

	Opera - Music Encyclopedia
		Crispino e la Comare or The Cobbler and the Fairy, a comic opera in three acts with music composed by the brothers Luigi and Federico Ricci and text by Francesco Maria Piave was produced in Venice in 1850.
		Fidelio, or Conjugal Love, a grand opera in two acts, with music by Ludwig van Beethoven and a libretto freely adapted by Sonnleithner from the French of Bouilly, was first given to the public in Vienna in 1805.
		II Matrimonio Segreto, or The Clandestine Marriage, a comic opera in two acts, with music by Domenico Cimarosa and words by Bertati, was produced in Florence in 1792.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/cat_index_21.shtml (1063 words)

	main
		It was originally arranged for the Canton Comic Opera Co. to present two operettas this summer which they have done most successfully, and we hope to the entire satisfaction of our patrons.
		The all too short season has been most gratifying to the Canton Comic Opera Company cast and crew and for the splendid patronage we extend our thanks.
		Auditions for the Canton Comic Opera Company's 2007 Summer Season will be held in early 2007.
	www.geocities.com /cantoncomicopera/main.html (115 words)

	04-19-01 COMIC OPERA "DON PASQUALE" OPENS AT MAJESTIC THEATER
		Soprano Hansen, was a 2000 Metropolitan Opera Auditions regional finalist, and has been studying in New York City this year with Metropolitan Opera assistant director Joan Dornemann.
		Recent performances have been with the New Israeli Opera orchestra, the Portland and Sacramento operas, the Oregon Symphony, and at the Cascade Music Festival.
		Hundtoft, a baritone, was a winner of the 1999 Oregon District Metropolitan Opera competition.
	oregonstate.edu /dept/ncs/newsarch/2001/Apr01/opera.htm (508 words)

	Richard Sheridan's 'The Duenna'
		Although "The Duenna's" highest claim to notice, depends, now, upon the reputation of its author, yet the author was first indebted to "The Duenna" for the honour of ranking among poets, and of receiving from the fashionable world all those animating caresses, so dear to a poet's heart.
		This opera was brought upon the stage in 1775, and during that, and many following years, dellighted the dramatic world; still the author did not receive undivided praise for its success: - Musicians had their share, and certain singers of the most forcible attraction.
		Of less doubtful origin is the best incident in the opera, or rather, the foundation and fable of the opera itself, which is borrowed from Wycherley's "Country Wife." - Not purloined, and the mark taken out, to prevent detection; but fairly borrowed, and used almost to the very letter.
	iment.com /maida/familytree/henry/music/duenna.htm (321 words)

	Austin Lyric Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		As his last project as a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Joshua Winograde was pleased to create the role of the King in Oscar-winning composer Rachel Portman’s opera The Little Prince (libretto by Olivier award-winning playwright Nicholas Wright based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).
		His phrasing and enunciation were masterful” He continues with contemporary opera projects making his Spoleto USA Festival debut performing in Tom Johnson’s comic opera The Four Note Opera, and Leonard Bernstein’s 1974 ballet Dybbuk.
		He will also perform at Pensacola Opera adding the role of Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia to his repertoire in performances to be conducted by Jerry Shannon.
	www.austinlyricopera.org /season/trovatore/Winograde.asp (989 words)

	Scoop: Comic Opera A First For 2004 Festival
		The New Zealand International Arts Festival and The NBR New Zealand Opera have joined forces in their first ever co-production to bring together outstanding artistic talent for one of the most sparkling comedies in the operatic repertoire.
		"Opera remains one of the most expensive art forms to stage and the co-production provides an important liaison for both organisations given rising opera costs," he said.
		The opera goes on to be presented at Auckland's Aotea Centre, with the Auckland Philharmonia in early April.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/CU0306/S00129.htm (2423 words)

	Homepage - State Opera Prague - www.opera.cz
		The ballet by Sergey Prokofiev represents one of the most charming stagings of Charles Perrault’s fairy tale of the modest and graceful girl who, unlike her two step-sisters, did not hunt for her luck and still won the love of a handsome prince in the end.
		The Prague State Opera in cooperation with the Slovart publishing house publishes a representative book tracking the history of this significant cultural institution since its opening in 1888 till the end of the 2002/2003 season.
		The publication called The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates is focusing solely on the opera featured at the scene, even though the theatre under various names also served to presentation of drama plays, operettas and ballet.
	www.opera.cz /en (426 words)

	The New Classical Music Forums - Puccini Bio
		His finest operas, Manon Lescaut (1893), La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (produced posthumously in 1926), display his characteristically lyric style and masterful orchestration, evoking strongly dramatic emotional effects.
		Although the characters in his operas are rather generalized, romantic figures, they come alive through expressive melody.
		Wit and dramatic vivacity, however, mark his comic opera Gianni Schicchi (1918), and Puccini has remained, with Verdi, a unsurpassed master of the Italian operatic stage.
	classicalmusicforums.com /showthread.php?p=207 (260 words)

	The Met Opera Shop > The Met Opera Guild
		Discover a recently re-released recital (such as CaballÃ©âs ravishing account of French opera arias, or Thomas Hampsonâs recital of Cole Porter songs) or take the plunge into new territory (with the PlÃ¡cido Domingoâs new recording of Pucciniâs Edgar or RenÃ©e Flemingâs new song-cycle with Brad Mehldau).
		With other releases featuring Anna Netrebko, Ian Bostridge and others, August is the month to indulge in the glorious sounds of opera.
		Remember that all orders benefit the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and help the Guild bring opera into the classroom and students into the opera house through our education programs.
	www.metoperafamily.org /shop (237 words)

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