Opéra bouffe

Opéra bouffe (French pronunciation: [ɔpeʁa buf], plural: opéras bouffes) is a genre of late 19th-century French operetta, closely associated with Jacques Offenbach, who produced many of them at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens that gave its name to the form.

Opéras bouffes are known for elements of comedy, satire, parody and farce. The most famous examples are La belle Hélène, Barbe-bleue (Bluebeard), La Vie parisienne, La Périchole and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein.

Sources

  • Bartlet, M. Elizabeth C.: "Opéra bouffe" Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (London, 1992). ISBN 0-333-73432-7
gollark: I also have some sort of incredibly convoluted bytecoded exploit which decompiled wrong.
gollark: https://dpaste.com/GHLLHCFKL (old potatOS uninstall sandbox exploit, decompiled from bytecode, important line commented out)
gollark: Do you want some of my copies of old ones?
gollark: It's a bit empty.
gollark: No size limit is automatically enforced, but I have the button(s).
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.