| 单词 | comic opera |
| 例句 | Though he produced more serious than comic operas, it's the latter that dominate the modern repertory. La Cenerentola - a musical guide 2012-06-19T12:21:43Z Members of Lyric Opera's Ryan Opera Center will present Mozart's comic opera "The Impresario" along with Donizetti and Rossini excerpts. Summertime, and there's music for everyone in Grant Park 2011-03-02T22:26:00Z I'm not averse to getting my fix in the form of something purely escapist, for example, Donizetti's comic opera La Fille du Régiment. How a modest Italian film trumped the extravagance of Donizetti 2010-06-18T09:00:00Z He decided to set “Tenor Overboard” in the 1940s and to cram it with what he called “the great tropes of comic opera.” Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z But he also writes comic operas, and they have languished. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Later that year, he scored an even bigger hit with a comic opera, The Duenna, all about a dual elopement. The Duenna's 230-year elopement 2010-09-29T21:00:00Z "I have a lot of affection for the piece," Corigliano said, adding that he wrote it partly as an homage to one of his favorite genres — the opera buffa, the Italian phrase for comic opera. L.A. Opera goes for the epic with 'The Ghosts of Versailles' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Phil commissioned Barry’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which hilariously unhinged Oscar Wilde’s play and has happily become the most celebrated absurdly comic opera of the decade. The craziest opera yet: Gerald Barry's 'Alice's Adventures' 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z British politics meet "Midsummer Night's Dream" in "Iolanthe," the popular Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera opening July 13 at the Bagley Wright Theatre in Seattle. Seattle company stages Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Iolanthe' 2012-07-05T20:54:04Z A proper stage for these and other works wouldn’t merely help to reclaim comic opera’s past and present; it could also set priorities for the future. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z As he has explained in interviews, Mr. Carsen thinks Verdi’s great comic opera is overcast with melancholy. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z Instead, he began work on a comic opera, “The Young Lord.” Is ‘The Bassarids’ an Operatic Masterpiece, or ‘Strauss Turned Sour’? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Inspired by the charismatic Spanish soprano Isabella Colbran, whom he later married, Rossini gradually moved from comic operas to grander, more serious works. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z A US theatre group today apologised for updating Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Mikado so the character of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, listed Sarah Palin among people who "would not be missed". I should Ko-Ko: Theatre group sorry for putting Sarah Palin on executioner's list 2011-02-01T19:38:06Z The evening before, Dallas Opera presented the world premiere of Heggie's "Great Scott," a comic opera able to attract a great American cast led by Joyce DiDonato. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z In that spirit, Seattle Opera's Young Artists Program presents Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," a comic opera in which true love conquers all, Saturday through April 7. Seattle Opera Young Artists Program presents 'Don Pasquale' 2012-03-27T21:35:05Z Philidor, who hailed from a distinguished family of French musicians, was probably at least as well known in his day as a master chess player as he was a successful composer of comic operas. Review | Chamber quartet dips into pleasingly unknown territory 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z “Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.” Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Directors are especially tempted to fill the stage with madcap activity in comic opera. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z Born in Liège, Belgium, in 1741, Grétry settled in Paris in the late 1760s and produced a string of fabulously successful comic operas until the French Revolution. Music Review: Unearthing A Charmer Predating Bastille Day 2011-02-11T21:54:28Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton Night, in comic opera, is the place of mistaken identities, where people have exchanged cloaks and hats, where the wrong lovers sometimes embrace in the dark. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z After a career in comic opera, Offenbach saw “Hoffmann” as his chance, finally, to show he was capable of writing a serious work. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z Yet l'Enfant, too, is that rare commodity: an impeccably constructed comic opera in one act with music that mixes tart irony with lush tenderness. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z Mozart’s comic opera — which features the cast of characters from his opera “The Barber of Seville” — follows Figaro, a valet whose master has designs on Figaro’s fiancée. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Opera, is scheduled to star in the title role of the comic opera. L.A. Opera to simulcast season opener starring Placido Domingo 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Carsen sees Verdi’s bustling comic opera as overcast with melancholy. Review: Ambrogio Maestri Returns for Another Round as ‘Falstaff’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z And not least, he made the audience laugh, a rarity even in comic operas. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z After all, Mozart’s socially abrasive comic operas, in which the upper class is undone by servants, started the tradition of composers biting the bourgeois hands that feed them. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z To devotees of British comic opera, “The Mikado” is one of the pinnacles of the genre. Is ‘The Mikado’ Too Politically Incorrect to Be Fixed? Maybe Not. 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The vivid interpretation of three dances from Smetana’s “Bartered Bride,” a comic opera that reflects the composer’s interest in traditional Bohemian dance forms and folk idioms, was equally rewarding. Music Review: Lola Astanova With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2013-01-26T01:04:56Z Under the aegis of comic opera, Verdi and Wagner seem to have wandered together into a moonlit garden – the same garden where, disguised as the Countess, Mozart's Susanna once sang so alluringly. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z Jacques Offenbach never finished “The Tales of Hoffmann,” his magic-infused, dark comic opera inspired by the work of the Prussian fantasy writer E.T.A. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The honor of your presence is requested at "The Marriage of Figaro" when Mozart's comic opera opens a new season of "Great Performances at the Met." TV This Week Jan. 11 - 17: 'Whitney' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The answer is simple: It’s time for this country to create a comic opera company of its own. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Under the helm of the energetic Albert Bergeret, the company presented “Pirates” on Friday evening at Symphony Space, part of a winter season that also includes the comic opera “Patience.” Music Review: ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ at Symphony Space 2013-12-29T20:37:38Z “Well, it sounds like a comic opera, really,” Nixon says to Haldeman a few days after the caper. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. Saturday night, however, singing the baritone lead role in Puccini's comic opera for the first time, Domingo sounded as if he could go on forever. L.A. Opera opens 30th season with Plácido Domingo staying busy 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z At the Théâtre des Abbesses on Tuesday, Sophie-Anne Descoubès, 45, attended a comic opera even after a friend decided not to join her. After Paris Attacks, a Slow Reawakening for City’s Cultural Offerings 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Outside of comic opera, it is rare for a heroine to survive the final act; the price for love is usually death. Mariusz Trelinski Brings ‘Iolanta’ and ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ to the Met 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Opera can be a very serious, heavy form; writing a comic opera is unusual. The Doctor's Tale: Barking up the right tree 2011-03-31T20:45:01Z These trappings lent the proceedings a comic opera quality. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z That’s evident not only in his comic operas, such as “Lucrezia,” but also in the wild transitions embedded within his instrumental works. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Performers got to rest during the intermezzi between acts, when a ballet or brief comic opera kept the show going. Bar and Bathroom Lines, Molto Adagio 2014-04-18T20:59:14Z Predictably, “I Due Figaro,” with its fast pace, sparkling ensembles and impeccable craftsmanship, unfolds much like a Rossini comic opera. Opera Review: Riccardo Muti in His Element With Further Adventures of Figaro 2011-06-14T11:30:06Z My favorite, though, is "Topsy-Turvy," the 1999 Gilbert & Sullivan film that follows the duo through the creation of their comic opera "The Mikado." Mike Leigh's latest picked up at Cannes 2010-05-19T23:01:00Z And aside from small, specialized troupes — a local Gilbert & Sullivan society, or Ohio Light Opera — the United States doesn’t really have any comic opera companies. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z It's worth pausing to consider how similar the plot structures of great comic operas turn out to be. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z A 1929 editorial in the paper on the Duveen case: “How can anyone outside of a comic opera expect the authenticity of an old painting to be settled by a lawsuit?” When Judging Art’s Authenticity, the Law vs. the Market 2012-08-05T20:26:23Z The highlight of last season, Mr. Gilbert’s first as music director, was the Philharmonic’s presentation of Ligeti’s apocalyptic comic opera “Le Grand Macabre,” also directed by Mr. Fitch. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z An opera devotee, it was his last visit: as the lights went down for act three of a rather lengthy German comic opera, he called out in despair, “Oh God.” How Alzheimer’s took my brilliant dad, Lord Goodhart, in increments 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z They could go from being a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it novelty to something that New York desperately lacks: a standing, smashing comic opera company. Review: ‘Carmen’ Returns to Its Comic Opera Roots 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Unbeknown to Scott, Clare was performing with the Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society and was in the midst of tech week for the comic opera “Trial by Jury.” ‘I think we found a boyfriend for you.’ Turns out, friends met her future husband. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Together, MasterVoices and St. Luke’s could form the backbone of America’s first true comic opera company. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z But what Kazaras has done is, rather, to treat this supreme comic opera with the greatest respect. Review: Seattle Opera's 'Barber' really cuts it 2011-01-17T21:39:14Z In his day, Grétry’s warm comic operas were popular not just in Europe but also in French enclaves of American cities, including New Orleans. Classical & Opera Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z This comic opera focuses on an assassination plot. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The comic opera tradition — which traditionally has included not only spoken dialogue, but also smaller voices relative to grander works in the repertory — has since cross-pollinated with neighboring forms like the musical. America Needs Its Own Comic Opera Company 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Led a dance … Malcolm Arnold was first told his Restoration-influenced comic opera was too bawdy, then that it was too serious. Maclom Arnold's The Dancing Master finally comes in from the cold 2012-10-11T10:57:48Z Puccini originally intended the piece for Vienna's Carltheater, which wanted an operetta, but he composed it as a comic opera, and World War I caused the premiere to be shifted to Monte Carlo in 1917. Opolais makes winning Met debut in 'La Rondine' 2013-01-14T01:16:04Z His other compositions include orchestral and chamber works and the comic opera “Salsipuedes: A Tale of Love, War and Anchovies,” first staged at the Houston Grand Opera in 2004. Daniel Cat?n, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62 2011-04-12T02:28:20Z In this showstopper from Rossini’s elegant comic opera “Le Comte Ory,” Oropesa’s classy singing sneaks subtle flecks of color into fiendish runs taken at the speed of light. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Although you don’t guffaw when you’re watching this opera, it is a comic opera, and it does have a lightness, a spring in its step, that I find is physically and musically very healthy. After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z A comic opera ends with a wedding, and our opera buffa is no exception. L.A. Affairs: I like opera. He didn’t. Should I stick around for the final act? 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z Before he signed off the stage, he sang his version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General,” a signature tune from their comic opera “The Pirates of Penzance.” Minister Steve Pieters endured the AIDS crisis. He's a beacon of faith battling new virus 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Chou brings receipts, in the form of endnotes, that include, for instance, a 2014 Seattle Times article detailing a production of the comic opera “The Mikado” starring 40 white actors in yellowface. A New Class of Campus Satire 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In these times, performing, even — or especially — in a comic opera, becomes a calling, and as she speaks, Syniakova’s heightened emotion takes an evangelical tone. Olga Syniakova of Seattle Opera’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ reflects on art, Ukraine roots 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z From that Greek-tragedy tale, let’s move to a comic opera: the notorious Dalton gang. Train robberies — great or pedestrian — are nothing new in California 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Frishberg took an early and eclectic interest in music, listening to an older brother’s boogie-woogie jazz records and to the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Dave Frishberg, composer and performer of inventive, witty jazz songs, dies at 88 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z In Mozart’s comic operas, humor is used to break down our defenses. Review: In a fantastic 'Covid fan Tutte,' Salonen ushers Mozart into the age of coronavirus 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z The Mikado New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players stage the British duo’s classic comic opera/social satire set in feudal Japan. Classical music in L.A. this week: Pink Martini with Pacific Symphony and more 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z Years later, reflecting on his role in the Clinton impeachment trial, Chief Justice Rehnquist was self-deprecating, borrowing a line from “Iolanthe,” a favorite Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera. Trump’s Impeachment Trial a Perilous Duty for Chief Justice 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Opera for Kids: Elixir of Love Pacific Symphony presents selections from Donizetti’s comic opera. Classical music in L.A. this week: Salutes to Martin Luther King Jr. and more 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The Mikado Pacific Opera Project reprises its Harajuku-style update of Gilbert & Sullivan’s satirical comic opera set in Japan. 'Peter and the Wolf' with John C. Reilly and more classical music this week in L.A. 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z He specialized in Italian comic opera, building up Vienna’s resources in that genre. Antonio Salieri’s Revenge 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z For Berkowitz, the revival marks a significant act of defiance against the Nazis, even eight decades after the once highly popular comic opera was pulled from the German repertoire by the authorities. Kurt Weill opera silenced by Nazis to be heard again after 80 years 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Goldman looked upon the Watergate saga, with its inept conspirators, as something of a “comic opera.” William Goldman, Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘Butch Cassidy’ and ‘All the President’s Men,’ dies at 87 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But how to bring what I would assert is America’s most profound comic opera back to America? Review: As L.A. voted, John Cage's anarchic 'Europeras 1 & 2' set the tone for election day - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Four years after the fresco was repainted, the episode was celebrated in the town with a comic opera performed by professional singers and a local choir. Virgin Mary rocks turquoise hair in controversial art-restoration attempt in Spain 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Donald Trump is the undisputed hero of this comic opera in three acts. Imagining the “Trump in Europe” opera 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The theatrical impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte, who built the Savoy Theater in London’s West End in 1881 to showcase the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, then built the Savoy Hotel next door in 1889. The Art of Making a Bespoke Mattress 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z He introduced "Wing on Wing" with a curiosity: Mozart's short, and rarely encountered, comic opera, "The Impresario." Cue the mermaids, it's Esa-Pekka Salonen's 'Wing on Wing' 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Readers of the indictment will be amused at the comic opera details. The Russian Indictments 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Pacific Symphony puts a comic-book spin on Johann Strauss II's comic opera. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Jan. 28-Feb. 4: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Bernstein's Mass and more 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z “Comic” does not here mean superficial or laugh-out-loud hilarious: as Rossini so superbly demonstrated in “The Barber of Seville”, comic opera combines a sophisticated analysis of human interactions with a light touch. Imagining the “Trump in Europe” opera 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z American democracy’s comic opera frequently features collaborations of “bootleggers and Baptists.” Opinion | The Supreme Court should let states set their own sports gambling laws 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “The Phantom of the Opera,” for example, contains a nod to Mozart in the song “Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh,” a pseudo-aria from an imaginary comic opera. null 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z These vary in tone from the serious to the absurd, including a comic opera reception with a small-town mayor. 'Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe' beautifully captures the mysterious life of the once-famed author 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z One of his opponents remembered the primary race as “something between a comic opera and depressing satire.” America’s Most Political Food 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s a two-dimensional man, and I knew that. This was light comic opera more than a tragedy. Aging provocateur: 'Snowden' director Oliver Stone walks us through his storied filmography 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The novel was so popular that “Pamela”-inspired merchandise, from teacups to fans, quickly sprang up, as did spurious sequels, a theatrical version, and even a comic opera. The Prude Who Invented the Modern Novel 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z If Mr. Walton wishes to gussy up and don a penguin suit to attend a light comic opera, more power to him; I saw it several years ago in shorts and sandals. Feedback: Let's talk 'black-ish' 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Now Giménez, 83, has found herself back in the spotlight, as preliminary rehearsals begin for an American comic opera inspired by her story. Something to sing about: 'worst art restoration ever' inspires an opera 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The songs, which mix R&B with rap and pay homage to comic operas by the likes of Gilbert and Sullivan, are catchy. Fun with federalists 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The wonderful comic opera of her escape is reason enough to buy this superb book. The lonely, suffocated life of Stalin’s daughter 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Last week local media attention was monopolised by a comic opera concerning the largest party in the new parliament, Nidaa Tounes, which nearly split over a battle of personalities. Terror at the Bardo 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z A comic opera is in the works in the United States, the story of how a woman ruined a fresco and saved a town. A Town, if Not a Painting, Is Restored 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z The comic opera is loosely based on her story. Something to sing about: 'worst art restoration ever' inspires an opera 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Griffin knows how to keep a straight face, even in the middle of Washington’s comic opera. In Redskins’ Comic Opera, an Owner Bellows Sour Notes 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z When I read the address at my hotel, I thought about the composers Gilbert and Sullivan and how they made comic operas way back in the 1800s. 3 Amazing Mind Tricks That Will Help You Remember Small Details 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z This comic opera was written about 130 years ago, enjoyed an initial run of 672 performances in London’s West End and then went on to become perhaps the most often-performed comic opera in history. Guest: ‘The Mikado’ is worth performing 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z “The Mikado,” a comic opera, is playing at the Bagley Wright Theatre from July 11 to July 26, produced by the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society. The yellowface of “The Mikado” in your face 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z At the last public meeting of the FSA, Griffith-Jones admitted he recused himself from discussions about the report when questioned by Philip Meadowcroft, a member of the public, who likened the regulator to "comic opera". HBOS report delayed to end of year 2013-07-18T13:04:43Z Gilbert and Sullivan's fame was really based on a little comic opera called "Thespis." The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z Here, comedy; here, comic opera; here, melodrama; here, spectacle; here, Shakespeare and the classic; and so on, and so on. Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z THE Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society is an amateur community-based theater group dedicated to the production of the 19th century comic operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Guest: ‘The Mikado’ is worth performing 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z "A comic opera—singing, and funny business, and pretty girls, I suppose?" said the Westerner. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z It grew out of French opera-bouffe by way of burlesque, and of the "comic opera" type which Gilbert and Sullivan made famous. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z M. Fournier knew nothing of the blind beggar at the cemetery gate where Charnock had first heard the comic opera tune and registered it in his memory. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z This little historic comic opera which we are trying to compose has a great many "leitmotiven." The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z Over the past 60 years, we have annually produced at least one full-scale comic opera. Guest: ‘The Mikado’ is worth performing 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z "The comic opera and the roof garden will just suit me," Stone responded. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z Rossini, in fact, introduced into serious opera the forms which comic opera already possessed. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Their vogue is indicated by references to them in the works of Jane Austen, Thackeray and the first Lord Lytton, and more recently in one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic operas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z He was a very prolific composer of Italian comic opera, and there is in most of his scores a vein of humour and natural gaiety not surpassed by Cimarosa himself. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z He reminds me of a comic opera Frenchman. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z Such "revolutions" we regard as subjects for comic opera, and for the Richard Harding Davis type of fiction; but we do not consider them as having any relationship to progress. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z One of the most material alterations is that the grand distinction between serious and comic operas is nearly at an end, the separation of the singers for their performances entirely so. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z Both notions are more suitable for a comic opera than for an official document. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The first concerted attack on the Doones is comic opera burlesque; but the scenes of humour that delight us most are those describing friendly relations with beast and bird. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z She doted on Wagner's productions, She thought comic opera low, And she played trying tunes on a zither, Keeping time with a sandal-shod toe. The Coo-ee Reciter 2011-11-20T03:00:16.890Z If they make any distinction at all it is to call it "high-class comic opera." Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Nothing more need be said in this volume of Rossini considered as a composer of comic opera. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z So there is nothing strange in their playing comic opera at Quimper. San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z We tested his emotional side by getting him to recall scenes in a comic opera, at which he heartily laughed but had no knowledge of on waking. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z During the delay accorded by law and which circumstances required, Beaumarchais composed a comic opera, which he ornamented with couplets to the Spanish and Italian airs which he had brought back with him from Madrid. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Yet "op�ra bouffe" is, to my mind, something infinitely superior and many steps higher than modern comic opera. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Nevertheless later criticism has seen, and not unreasonably, in these two pieces the origin in the one case of farce, and thus indirectly of comedy proper, in the other of comic opera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Hence the repertoire of the theatre of Havana towards the end of the century catered to the Spaniard's love of music and favored the best comic operas then produced in the theatres of Europe. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z But it appears that the theatre was wanted by the co-manager for comic opera, so the fourth act of Hugo's play was persistently hissed at every representation by interested persons. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z We have spoken already of its rejection by the Comédie des Italiens, after it had assumed the form of a comic opera. Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence 2011-11-11T03:00:25.690Z Clairon was engaged to dance in the ballet, sing in comic opera, and act in a few parts suited to her age, at a salary of 100 pistoles, or about 1000 livres. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Some night soon he’s to accompany me to the comic opera. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The little man, in short, looked exactly like the traditional toy or clock maker of Nuremberg in a comic opera, stepping clean off the stage to greet the new-comers. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z Then from poetry he would turn to romances, fables, stories, epigrams, madrigals, logographs, acrostics, charades, enigmas, and impromptus; and he even wrote a comic opera. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Put in that way it's comic opera, indeed. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z It was at first supposed that the poet had lost his head; a battle announced between two comic operas, the order of the day to the air of a popular song, seemed too absurd! Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z While we looked at them I heard her sit down to the piano in the drawing-room; she began to sing an air from a comic opera. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Though it was a gay comic opera that was being performed for the first time, entertainers and entertained lost all interest in each other. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z But nature is not always pleasing, and it is not in the outskirts of Paris that one must seek for the shepherds of Florian, the herdsmen of Bertin, the seductive villagers of our comic operas. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z I was so keen after that, even before I came into office, that they used to call me The Blackhander and say I ought to write a comic opera. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Berlioz well defined its true worth when he wrote: "Everything in this comic opera is pretty, piquant, fresh, spontaneous; there is not a note too much nor a note too little." Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z "It's like a comic opera," said Miss Marshall. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z In 1749 he began writing comic operas to libretti by Goldoni, which enjoyed an enormous popularity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Unlike Iraq, the misinformation in Libya has sometimes taken on the feel of a comic opera. News Analysis: Waves of Disinformation and Confusion Swamp the Truth in Libya 2011-08-24T01:18:54Z Dressing in his room he whistled under his breath a song from a newly popular comic opera; and he intoned with his clear young voice a line of the words: “Should-you-go-to-Mandalay.” The Girl From His Town 2011-08-05T02:00:50.677Z Indeed, it is obvious enough that most of our summer song-shows and many of our "comic operas" and "reviews" are, in reality, only more or less disguised variety-shows. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z You remember how, in the comic opera, the practice is satirized of appointing a person who has never been at sea to take charge of the navy of a great country. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Having thus failed in his own country, he went to Paris, and in 1783 brought out his comic opera, La Kermesse. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It seems easily possible, for example, to find in "The Bab Ballads" the essential whimsicalities which afterward made the fortunes of Mr. W. S. Gilbert's most famous comic operas. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z He seemed to be playing some small, fine, invisible flute as he gave them old-fashioned airs, ragtime tunes, songs from the comic operas, and miscellaneous melodies he had heard his sisters singing. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Molly was obliged to confess her ignorance regarding Professor Edwin Green’s outbursts into literature, but she indulged in an inward mental smile, remembering the lyrics in the comic opera libretto. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z Burlesque, pantomime, comic opera, were throwing open the stage to actresses of a new type who posed but did not perform, and who were called upon to fill not rôles but tights. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z He produced an opera at the age of sixteen, but it was a failure; seven years after, however, he produced a comic opera Dorinda, which was a great success. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z She stood irresolute just a moment as a figure came down the street, and pausing before the house opposite, whistled a bar from some comic opera. The Weight of the Crown 2011-06-26T02:00:09.240Z To her is largely due the beginnings of the change in this theatre to performances of a lyric type adapted from Italian models, which developed later into the genuine French comic opera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z She looked up thinking perhaps it was the comic opera he was going to talk about, but she was vastly mistaken. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z So far so well, but I doubt whether the native comic opera will survive its originators. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z To go to church because it was respectable and pleased the Squire, to mumble prayers, to preserve a smug deportment, and rattle coins into an offertory plate, approximated closely to comic opera! The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The first was an invitation from Roderigo Sanderson, one of Broadway's favorite leading men, to a dress rehearsal of a new comic opera that promised to be the rage of the season. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z At its head was a band which might, for all the world, have come out of the comic opera. Average Americans 2011-06-02T02:00:20.387Z There she became a prima donna in miniature, and charmed the Californians, especially by her imitations of the prominent grand opera and comic opera artists of the day. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Oh! some comic opera or another, and varieties from other things; but I am sure Lisette Renaud will be on the programme, and several times, too. Bijou 2011-05-25T02:00:22.743Z Charles Durand’s Grand English Opera Company commenced an engagement at Norwich Theatre, in Rossini’s comic opera, “Cinderella, or the Fairy of the Glass Slipper.” Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z I afterwards had the honour of introducing Mozart's comic opera, Il Seraglio, in which Mdlle. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z The announcement of a comic opera from the pen of a musician whose former ventures had been in such a different style seemed to bode disappointment. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z A comic opera comedian, whose humor is so much a matter of individuality, is the last person in the world to be imitated. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z As a comic opera it is quite one of the best in the world, and fully deserves its place in the repertory of opera for all time. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z It is," said I, "the only place for producing comic operas; but there are at this time, in the provinces, magistrates who think, with the same virtue and express themselves with the same force. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z A great many who expect to hear the angels sing always get near the stage at a comic opera. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z In fact, the Ulster controversy is so full of comic opera elements that it is difficult to keep from smiling at it. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z This, to a comic opera singer, is the hardest task of all; for it is written in the blue book that an interpreter of comic opera cannot act. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z There are no numbers, like the "Preis" song or Hans Sachs' soliloquies from Wagner's great comic opera, that can be performed with great effect at concerts: with Verdi's Falstaff it is all or nothing. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z He said he had things much better with which to occupy himself than the writing of comic operas. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z In a long conversation he informed me of his intention to establish a French theatre in his capital, for the performance of comedy, drama, vaudeville, and comic operas. Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z THERE’S a harvest for you,” said the Idiot, as he perused a recently published criticism of a comic opera. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z That, to my mind, was one of the best comic operas ever written. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z And this without mawkish sentimentality or comic opera delicacy of conduct. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z The Man of Destiny guffawed with languid inefficiency and declared that the plot was like a comic opera. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z You know, of course, I am bringing out a comic opera, composed by myself. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z “There have been thirty-nine new comic operas produced this year and four of ’em were worth seeing. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Consequently when I wanted a comic opera and couldn't get any one to write it for me, I said to myself, 'Here's a chance for Charles the Bold.' Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Of course it's a funny position—it's straight out of a comic opera. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z But I am sure everybody was happy ever after, and of "Les Cloches" and other comic operas like it I say, in the words of Coleridge's friend: "Them's the jockeys for me!" Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Aloud he said: 'When my comic opera goes on tour.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z If there’s anything in this world that I hate more than another it is a sombre comic opera. The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Still it was an excellent vehicle to display the talents of the so-called "triple alliance" of comic opera stars. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z I feel like a comic opera and a movie farce all in one; but never mind. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z The kind they write comic operas and popular novels for, with all the thought taken out so that he may not have to burden his mind with anything worth thinking about. Half-Hours with the Idiot 2011-01-22T03:00:18.853Z He walked back where Lucy, Miss Dent, and his brother were standing, humming a stave or two from a comic opera under his breath. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z “I’m told,” said the Lawyer, “that that is sometimes the hardest thing to do in a comic opera.” The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z In fact, the difference between the modern comic opera and the burlesque of thirty years ago is purely one of degree. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z After all, perhaps, as the doctor had said, it was something of a comic opera and farce all in one—this thing she was doing. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z Really, the scene on this platform was like a village green in a comic opera, with all the minor characters dancing round the tenor! Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z Curtis sat down on a flat stone and reached for his shoes and stockings, whistling a gay little melody from the last comic opera he had heard in San Francisco. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z What in the name of wonder ever took you on the comic opera stage? My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z They had original ideas, plenty of simple dramatic action, and some genuine comedy, but it is seldom that one finds any of these three essentials in the book of the modern comic opera. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z At his 80th birthday party, in 2001, a comic opera was performed to praise his accomplishments, and 125 guests were given mock money with his face on it. For-Profit College Plunge Makes Sperling Rail at Obama 2010-12-29T21:45:33Z He found her story hard to believe: "I had to pinch myself several times during her visit to be sure I wasn't dreaming the comic opera story which she unfolded". Secret files shed light on ballerina Fonteyn's 'plot with Castro' 2010-05-27T23:31:00Z Here was a world of party consciousness, party confrontation and party conflict which Gilbert and Sullivan memorably captured in their comic opera Iolanthe, first performed towards the end of 1883. New politics? 2010-05-21T15:48:00Z Hospital songs, ditties well-known at Bartholomew’s and Guy’s; poaching songs that bore the flavour of the honest shire of Somerset; pieces from the comic operas; all were given with the utmost good-humour and vivacity. A Cursory History of Swearing Elsewhere I have ventured an opinion on the subject of what we have been taught to regard as the French school of comic opera. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Here obviously were the properties, the stage scenery, and the artistes, principals and chorus, of a first-rate comic opera. The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise Despite his success in Masaniello, his peculiar field was comic opera, in which his charming melodies, bearing strongly the stamp of the French national character, his uniform grace and piquancy, won him a high place. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis In many of them may be found the germs of the librettos which have made Gilbert famous in comic opera. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 In “The Wrong Box,” for example, we have the humorous situation where the young barrister pretends that he is engaged on the composition of an imaginary comic opera. Stevensoniana Being a Reprint of Various Literary and Pictorial Miscellany Associated with Robert Louis Stevenson, the Man and His Work Indeed, if one were looking for a practical way to distinguish modern comic opera from extravaganza, he might find it in this matter of tights. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z She knew something of dancing, and was at that time practising ballet steps, a necessary accompaniment—so she had been told—to her debût in comic opera. Love's Usuries Vaudeville is on a far higher basis than much so-called comic opera. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Nicolai began his work by imitating Italian music, but later he became distinctly original and wrote a really excellent comic opera, the Merry Wives of Windsor, which stands in the first rank. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women In 1886 he won the great success of his life in Dorothy, a comic opera written to a libretto by B.C. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" It was not an ideal comic opera, by any means. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z Ronconi sang for many years in London, in all the great comic operas. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday And the man who invented comic opera, one of the most enduring molds in which English humor has been cast, deserves the credit of all important literary pioneers. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Some looked magnificently romantic, and some as if they had stepped from the comic opera stage. Confessions of an Opera Singer "The Japanese comic opera of the future has yet to be written," I responded, grandiloquently. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel The room might have been a scene set for a farce or a comic opera. Leerie Should you be forced to walk, a belt around your waist will always enable you to tuck it up like a comic opera king. Camp and Trail He would have passed in comic opera anywhere; but the dart of his black eye was keen, his voice crisp and assured. Where the Pavement Ends It was a unique situation, as much like an incident in comic opera as an affair of business. The Romance of the Reaper Dittersdorf’s chief talent was for comic opera and instrumental music in the sonata forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" It's unusual, of course, for a Professor of English Literature to write a comic opera, but the very unusualness may give it some publicity and help the thing along. Molly Brown's Sophomore Days In this sense it is employed to distinguish the more emphatic parts of a species of verse which is essentially gay, graceful and frivolous, such as the songs in a vaudeville or a comic opera. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" In the latter place he kept in his pay a company of French actors, who were lodged in a magnificent mansion near to his own, and who enacted comedies, vaudevilles, and comic operas. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Indeed, in its wooden framework, gaudily painted, its quaint carvings, and its bamboo roof, it was the very type of what one sees in a comic opera. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day There is an improvised dance, ending in an impromptu cotillion, and following on an act of a comic opera given with admirable spirit by Lady Dawlish, Mrs. Curzon, and some of the younger men. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June "I'll try," answered Molly, not realizing how her reply might sound to the author of the comic opera, who only smiled good-naturedly and said: "The music will be pretty at any rate." Molly Brown's Sophomore Days After leaving Dehn, Cornelius proved his independence by writing a trio in A minor, a quartet in C, as well as two comic opera texts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" This was a small part, but, being in straight drama rather than comic opera, was regarded by Mansfield as a step upward, and he did not hesitate about accepting the engagement. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 After Mansfield, 'Rob Roy,' the comic opera, held the boards at the Herald Square for quite a time. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 Before he was twenty years old farces and comic operas from his pen had been successfully produced on the London stage, and he was a pet of London society. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 They went to a little country farmhouse which ranged along the track in lieu of a depot, and sang a quaint air from some old-time comic opera. The "Genius" While Lothair thought your instrumental writings your best, I thought your forte was comic opera. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The managers of that theatre have been wise to replace their variety-shows with this excellent comic opera. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 One may say, "Like a dog"; another, "Like a saucepan"; a third, "Like a wet day"; a fourth, "Like a comic opera." What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes She goes to the theatre a lot, and she had all the latest comic opera songs, like those of Anna Held and Marie Cahill, and she can play ragtime out of sight. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories She remembered a line in a comic opera which she and Eugene had seen together: "Absence is the dark room in which lovers develop negatives" and this seemed a case in point. The "Genius" We often hear solemn Themas stalking majestically along in comic operas, playful little ditties in opera seria, and masses and oratorios of operatic cut in the churches. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The location is central, the house is well built, the company good, and the repertory includes drama, comedy, farce, and comic opera. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 The third, "It is like a wet day because one soon has enough of it"; and the fourth, "It is like a comic opera because it is full of tunes." What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes “Once more I beg your pardon, but though you have apparently dressed for it, this is not comic opera.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Six years in a tomb, a comic opera sort of tomb, where a silly surf was forever pounding, and foolish palms kept waving. Seven Keys to Baldpate Perhaps it is a phrase in the current comic opera, I thought. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Dear me, Jane, do you get all that out of this poor little comic opera? Chicken Little Jane on the Big John He was everywhere, the little pantalon rouge, streaming the walks, dotting the caf�s with red, and every wee piou-piou under the great big epaulettes of a great big comic opera generalissimo. The Missourian He cares little for comic opera, vaudeville or revues because he feels they serve no practical purpose and get him nowhere. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types So I've had to reply to this comic opera bunch, and as I say, I'm about wore out explaining. Seven Keys to Baldpate She was like a child in the catholicity of her appetite, for she devoured Shakespearian bread, Ibsen roasts, and comic opera cream-puffs with almost equal gusto—and mentally thrived upon the mixture. Money Magic A Novel Assistance of rather a graver character than usually associated with comic opera is naturally afforded by Mr. Haydyn Coffin. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 The tragedy changed for a spell to comic opera. The Missourian Now it ended in what has a resemblance to a comic opera. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters It was as if he knew that Adolphus was rather comic opera, but wouldn't stoop to disguise it. Love and Lucy Just marry a nice girl who goes to comic operas. Melomaniacs The young lady is a singer in comic operas, a Miss Jenny Brett, whose dossier can be given you on demand. The Princess Virginia This occurred in the proceedings of a business deputation, and not in a comic opera. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule In the midst of the throng of cruel guards marched some tall, well-built girls, with painted cheeks, and in costumes copied from the Turkish maidens of comic opera. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore She could not mistake the high peak of that comic opera sombrero. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation She led the way through the French-window, and linked arms with Rose, whilst the two strange figures followed like a couple of characters in a comic opera. The Tale of Timber Town “Come, I’m not engaging a low comedian for a comic opera.” Counsel for the Defense He doesn't look it, but the most comic moments in comic opera are likely enough to be the saddest. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces "It isn't in the same street with a comic opera at the Savoy after a good dinner," Lambert remarked. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate In a comic opera one thing is not more idiotic than another. The Belovéd Vagabond That evening they sang all sorts of songs, from gospel hymns to comic operas, and Blanch showed in so many ways that she admired her new-found friend that there was no further restraint. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast He had taken a comic opera company through the wheat-belt—one way; he had led a burlesque troupe into Arizona and had traded it there for a hotel. The Dark Star Music and words never have seemed better wedded than in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Then Dennison began to play "The Gondoliers," which was the popular comic opera of the day. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate The first time Josephine Sabel's father and mother saw her on the stage she was in the chorus of a comic opera company and was wearing tights. Continuous Vaudeville She heard his encore but faintly—enough, however, to recognize one of the solos from a popular comic opera, then someone rapped on her door and bade her be ready for her second turn. Dorothy's Triumph Baron," I said, "your methods savour a little too much of comic opera. The Master Mummer He was named Deadeye because he had a dead-eye, and he is about as-223- sinister and ominous a creature as ever made a comic opera shiver. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces The Mexican oarsmen make one think of comic opera brigands, except that they look rather dirtier and their speech is music without song. Under the Southern Cross A comic opera company was playing Moose Jaw, Canada. Continuous Vaudeville Instead, we got a crew of comic opera Scotchmen singing songs, and an absurd picture of Robert Burns, who was injected pell-mell into the “romance.” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Failing to make herself understood, Dolores fetched an old man who looked like a comic opera pirate and who could speak a little English. Bandit Love Perhaps this is because he and his workfellow, Gilbert, were pioneers in making a totally new kind of comic opera. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces Somerville enjoyed a comic opera exceedingly, and so did I; and at that time Lablache was in the height of his fame. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Especially is this true of the lighter branch of the drama, comedy, and the modern combination known as musical comedy or comic opera. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession For four years he supplied the evening edition and The Sunday World with a comic feature, to say nothing of a comic opera, written to order in five days. When Winter Comes to Main Street The grand comic opera episode at Oyster Bay especially appealed to a number of Handy's admirers. A Pirate of Parts The incidents of the war read like scenes in a comic opera. The Story of Paris Some toothless old sentimentalist or other periodically sets up a melancholy howl for "the good old days of comic opera," whatever or whenever they were. The Merry-Go-Round The good Emperor blesses the happy pair, and sets off again to see if there are no more comic operas in his dominions to which he can contribute a happy denouement. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 One day our little cellar company were engaged in rehearsing Dibdin’s comic opera of the Padlock. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 One day he met a certain manager who had lost a great deal of money in comic opera. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Patty was the gypsy queen, and looked like that personage as represented in comic opera. Patty's Summer Days In sooth when Campanari entered his dressing room after the first act of Wagner's comic opera he found that his director had kept his word.... The Merry-Go-Round At the other theatres, comic operas, melodramas, and domestic dramas prevail all over the city, and my stories play no inconsiderable part in them. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Reginald De Koven made a very successful comic opera out of it, while Thomas Love Peacock's Maid Marian is an interesting novelization of the theme. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Oh," said he, "if it's a comic opera you can have all the mountains you please. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Ma says there are some things about the theater that are not so alfired bad, and she wants me to get seats for the first comic opera that comes along. The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 For Parsifal is the subject par excellence for a comic opera.… The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. It is quite true that many a piquant comic opera shows more actual frivolity, and no one will underestimate the shady influence of such voluptuous vulgarities in their multicoloured stage setting. Psychology and Social Sanity Indeed, life in Burma is like a comic opera. Travels in the Far East Instantly the thought of the comic opera came into Molly's head. Molly Brown's Senior Days It was like a shipwreck in a comic opera, so easily the vessel grounded; and at noon the next day we were invited out on shipboard for a farewell luncheon. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Sometimes the orchestra is almost too rich for Moreto's playful subject, but this is also quite modern, and besides it offers coloristic surprises very rare in comic operas. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas You stocked up pretty well with the music of the day, the current Broadway comic opera and musical comedy successes. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Another afternoon's experience in Jeypore seemed even more like a scene from a comic opera,—only the curtain is never lowered in this most spectacular city in India, if not in the entire world. Travels in the Far East There is a certain reasonableness in the schemes of every comic opera. Gossamer 1915 There is the usual stone fort that seems to belong to some scene of a comic opera. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia This is one of the most charming comic operas, which were ever written by this master. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas No. Music without any tune to it may be all right for some people, but comic opera is "good enough" for you. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players Curiously enough, he began with small parts in comic opera, and a few years later, made one of the funniest Kokos who ever appeared in "The Mikado." American Men of Mind Either he or some one else had devised an effective counterplot; effective considered as a second act in a comic opera. Gossamer 1915 Marriages with comic opera stars are not usually domestic idylls. The Melting-Pot There is no triviality in it, as we find in most of the comic operas of Offenbach and others; it is always noble as well as characteristic in every part. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas There is a fragmentary cantilena which would make the fortune of a comic opera. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions They said that comic opera now running in town was very funny. The Squirrel-Cage He is the exact duplicate of the tramp in the comic opera of "Miss Hook of Holland"—except that the actor-sleeper occasionally topples over and has to be braced up. The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht That would be even a greater descent than Pappelmeister's to comic opera. The Melting-Pot They were the fashion towards the end of the last century, but "Il Seraglio" ranks much higher, and may be justly called a comic opera of the most pleasing kind. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Though chiefly known as a writer of marches, in which he has won glory enough for the average human ambition, Sousa has also taken a large place in American comic opera. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The whole incident seems to us now one more properly belonging to comic opera than to serious political life. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV Rousseau wrote a comic opera and was an ardent botanist. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot Some of them influenced the final issue, others were mere show-figures, really not more important than the beau sabreur in comic opera. The Philippine Islands The "Lady in white" is the chef-d'oeuvre of all comic operas in French, as Mozart's Figaro is in German. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas And his comic opera, "Tabasco," must be mentioned, as well as an enormous mass of sacred music, which, I confess, I had not the patience to study. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It was like a scene from a comic opera when we got back, as our host and hostess with old fashioned lamps went along their line of white-robed servants. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah The Princess Theatre in Melbourne has given renditions of comic opera which are not unfairly to be compared, for dressing, mise-en-sc�ne and artistic finish to those of the Savoy. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile Brennan told them stories of experiences in the Canadian northwest and adventures in a "comic opera" revolution in Central America. Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles Its music is sparkling with wit and grace and may rank among the best comic operas, of which we have not too many. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas He has written much sacred music and several comic operas. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Imagine an American comic opera star refusing to dine with a real duke! The Lure of the Mask In none of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas can any incident be found that is more delicious in its comicality and topsy-turvyism than was our experience with these bandit chiefs. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel Well, you see," explained Dan, "there is a comic opera playing here. Tess of the Storm Country By this opera the young composer, whose previous dramatic efforts were to a certain extent unsuccessful, has proved that his forte lies in comic opera. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas It has gilded balconies and tossing flags and comic operas, and leisurely pleasure-seekers, and tries always to believe and make the world believe that it is Paris in very truth. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida When I was an undergraduate there was a song from a comic opera by Offenbach so much in favour as to be de rigueur at festive meetings. A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing It was meant by nature for the realization of the society of comic operas. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) They made the whole neighbourhood of the Heath look like the Merrie England of a comic opera. The Dictator It is essentially a comic opera; but that a trouvère of the thirteenth century should by himself, so far as we can see, have founded comic opera is not a small thing. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Has the gentleman from Lockport come with the score of a comic opera under his arm, and two thousand dollars in his pocket? Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches "You've seen a comic opera cheese factory," said I, when we had left the church. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon As a lyrical poet he stands unequalled for the number of his libretti, having written the poetry of forty grand operas and of one hundred comic operas. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Stick to something lively and stirring—something from the comic operas! The Heart of Una Sackville They had gone as Gypsies—not comic opera Gypsies, but real Gypsies, dirty and ragged and patched. Just Patty No wonder I lost my breath; for what I've picked up off the front lawn looks like a stray villain from a comic opera. Shorty McCabe on the Job They were in gay spirits, having been to see a new comic opera, which proved such a bore that they left before it was over. Patty Blossom They teased and admired me by turns for learning the footnotes in the Latin grammar by heart; they never reproached me for my ignorance of the latest comic opera. The Promised Land This thing is turning into a comic opera—plain slapstick. Ten From Infinity I expect I furnished—I and the baby—a comic opera, music and all, for the entertainment of the three girls, as they nibbled their cold chicken and pound-cake. The Blunders of a Bashful Man Her works include piano trios, sonatas, and songs with piano and harp, besides the operetta, "La Belle Fermière," and the comic opera, "Ida." Woman's Work in Music I understood that to-night was the night for the great revival of comic opera. Jill the Reckless He is also the author of the earliest comic opera of which we have any account, the play of "Robin and Marion." A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Sally, dear, this isn't a comic opera country at all, but a land of grim melodrama; stark tragedy. Jane Journeys On So strong was the impulse—so alluring the picture—that he took up the comic opera and walked towards the fire, his fingers itching to throw it in. Merely Mary Ann Another work for the stage is the comic opera, "Tambour Battant." Woman's Work in Music He has been made one of the chief persons in one of the comic operas of MM. Candide The ballets of Boesset were, no doubt, slight upon the dramatic side, having even less of serious intention in the music than the lightest of comic opera of the present day. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present He explained that he had just written a comic opera, to which he had given the title of 'The Devil on Two Sticks,' and was looking out for a musician to set it to music. Story-Lives of Great Musicians But the comic operas of the Balkans are written in blood and what was then fun to me was to end in a world tragedy. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle It was therefore an event of more than ordinary importance and an entirely new departure in the musical world when Henry W. Savage made the announcement in regard to his immensely popular comic opera. Sixty Years of California Song A comic opera is a humorous opera, the plot providing many amusing situations and the whole ending happily. Music Notation and Terminology His next effort was a comic opera, the "Three Pintos," which was never finished. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Doctor Brown laughed, quite in the manner of the bass villain in the comic opera. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain The scene was certainly a strange one—as strange as if taken from a comic opera. Frank Merriwell's Reward And it was fit for comic opera— ghastly comic opera—if you can imagine Lucifer sitting in the stalls. Foe-Farrell Opera comique is not synonymous with comic opera, for the plot of opera comique is as often serious as not. Music Notation and Terminology As a composer of comic operas Zingarelli became popular all over Europe, but he was nevertheless a serious, even a devout composer. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Prussia’s dealing with aborigines is a subject for comic opera. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View He is also the author of many songs and ballads, and also of the lyrics of two comic operas. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Some are wanderers on the face of the earth, in comic operas. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) The results naturally tend to recall a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera of diplomacy. Historical Mysteries The band on the pier was playing a jaunty selection from a comic opera. The Swindler and Other Stories I'd rather hear comic opera any day than his wretched cantatas, and when I'm not practising I shall play what I like. A Popular Schoolgirl A plot is not without honor save in comic opera. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) "I'm told," said the Lawyer, "that that is sometimes the hardest thing to do in a comic opera." The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) There is some pleasant tom-foolery; but at a comic opera we enjoy this graceful nonsense. Studies in Early Victorian Literature The two men, with their little gun and their talk and gesticulations, lent a queer touch of comic opera to the scene. My War Experiences in Two Continents These were, the French Comedy, the Royal Academy of Music or Grand Opera, the Italian Comedy, where vaudevilles and comic operas were performed, and the Theatre de la Foire. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Yet the thought of his situation in some way struck her as ludicrous—almost like comic opera. The Title Market "There's a harvest for you," said the Idiot, as he perused a recently published criticism of a comic opera. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) The whole thing goes to bright music, like a comic opera of Gilbert and Sullivan. Studies in Early Victorian Literature It is no more drama than a music-hall entertainment, or a comic opera, or a cinematograph, or a hospital operation, all of which things take place in theatres. Masques & Phases It attracted crowds; and Sedaine, the composer, vexed to see it preferred to his comic operas, wrote a couplet against it, exhibiting more spleen than poetical merit. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Her Rosina in Rossini's great comic opera was a piquant and attractive performance. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens There have been thirty-nine new comic operas produced this year and four of 'em were worth seeing. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) From the outset merriment and humor were by no means the sole object of the French comic opera, as in the case of its Italian sister. Great Italian and French Composers He will drench himself with ecclesiology, or veterinary surgery, or railway technicalities—everything by turns and everything long; but, like the gentleman in the comic opera, he "never mixes." Adventures in Criticism Is it generous, is it just in a novelist, to lift us up to a pitch of tragic frenzy, and then drop us down into the last scene of a comic opera? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics His pieces, short comic operas, had a great popularity in Spain, and were not only bright and inventive, but marked by thorough musical workmanship. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens Frontier difficulties seemed matters for romance and comic opera; and Bardur resolved itself into an English suburb, all tea-parties and tennis. The Half-Hearted Under these conditions he was to write a comic opera, full of sparkle, gayety, and humor. Great Italian and French Composers It becomes a custom as constant as the refrain in a comic opera. The Man in Court It was not until 1845, however, that he made definite use of this material, and began the sketch for his only comic opera. Stories of the Wagner Opera Unless the voice has received a correct and fine culture, the German comic operas lead immediately to destruction of the voice, especially of the sensitive, easily injured German tenor voice. Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances I told you it was comic opera all along. The Half-Hearted Gr�try's services to his art, however, by his production of comic operas full of lyric vivacity and sparkle, have never been forgotten nor underrated. Great Italian and French Composers The song referred to here is ‘Unfortunate Miss Bailey,’ by George Colman, and sung by Mr. Mathews in the comic opera of Love Laughs at Locksmiths. Charles Dickens and Music So strong was the impulse—so alluring the picture—that he took up the comic opera and walked towards the fire, his finger itching to throw it in. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes In comic operas and popular ditties rhyme does now and then figure. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It was comic opera, but the tinge of melodrama was not absent. The Half-Hearted The story is so interesting, so admirably written, that Goethe and Mendelssohn considered it the true model for a comic opera. Great Italian and French Composers Wagner's one comic opera was born under a lucky star. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. It was not till a comic opera came along that Eileen was able to take the theatre seriously. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes A life-pledge offered and accepted in front of a window in Piccadilly!—why, such was the way of comic opera, not of the actual world. Prince Fortunatus These are rather light comic operas than true op�ras-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. His career covered the most important changes in the art as colored and influenced by national tastes, and he is justly regarded as the father of comic opera in his adopted country. Great Italian and French Composers Most great artistic enterprises spring from humble sources, and our young lions need not be ashamed of producing a mere comic opera or two before attacking a full-fledged music-drama. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Eileen laughed dutifully at this quotation from the latest comic opera, and went off, delighted to companion the husband by way of change. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Yes," said he, "and comic opera is the sort of place where one's taste becomes so refined. Prince Fortunatus Not that he will ever be popular, in Shakspere's way; and yet it is far gone when the aesthete in a comic opera is described as a "Francesca da Rimini young man." A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century Though, voluminous both in serious and comic opera, it was in the latter that he won his chief laurels. Great Italian and French Composers It is safest as a rule to begin building operations from the foundation, and a better foundation for a school of English opera than Sullivan's series of comic operas could hardly be desired. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. I am the only man who has ever put grand-opera effects into comic opera with success. The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories "It's a shame to throw away a fine voice like yours on a small part in comic opera," he said—still with vague dreams before him of a concert-room career for her. Prince Fortunatus Rice has said he would like to use in his next comic opera—provided he can get words to go with them. Love Conquers All Several of Paisiello's comic operas still keep a dramatic place on the German stage, where excellence is not sacrificed to novelty. Great Italian and French Composers But there is a reason for this, and it is one which goes to the root of the whole question of comic opera. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. She opens the bag, produces a little mirror and a comb, and puts her "fringe" in order—humming as she does so an air from the latest comic opera. The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts What was Linn Moore now?—why, a singer in comic opera, his face beplastered almost out of recognition; a pet of the frivolous-fashionable side of London society; the chief adornment of photographers' windows. Prince Fortunatus A high price to pay for a comic opera, even with real waterfalls! Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 This opera is still performed in many parts of Europe to delighted audiences, and is ranked by competent critics as the third finest comic opera extant, Mozart and Rossini only surpassing him in their masterpieces. Great Italian and French Composers Mozart saw that Italian comic operas often succeeded in spite of miserable libretti, because the entire interest was concentrated upon the music, and all the rest was forgotten. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Professor Black, who leads the choir in the Linden Street church, is going to get up a comic opera with a cast from the various choirs, and I am invited. The First Soprano It's the opening song in a very charming comic opera I once committed. Pearl of Pearl Island The business is a comic opera, but it has a tragic significance for Ireland. The Framework of Home Rule It was originally written for the Vontadour Theatre, devoted to comic opera; but the company were found unable to sing the difficult music. Great Italian and French Composers During the last few years of his life he had been engaged in a desultory way upon the composition of a comic opera, 'Die drei Pintos,' founded upon a Spanish subject. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Then begins a passage from some comic opera of Mozart's or Cimarosa's—an escapade familiar to Spanish or Italian students, which recalls the stage. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series For brilliant gayety it stands in the front rank of all comic operas, though Donizetti was but three weeks in writing it. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers To me it was all like a scene out of comic opera. Twelve Men The first step in the brilliant career of Thomas was the production of a comic opera in one act, "La Double �chelle," produced in 1837. Great Italian and French Composers She, too, was surprised at her outward aspect, having expected to behold a fantastic personage of comic opera. Jaffery He was to be forgiven, for he was new to comic opera; and besides, when a page of Punch falls to one in real life, one hardly realises it till too late. Simon Called Peter Now I couldn't feel the slightest interest in a man in comic opera. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage The more one heard of the whole affair, the more it seemed to resemble a scene out of a comic opera. South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time He was not generally recognized by musicians as a man of marked promise till he produced "Mina," a comic opera in three acts, which was represented in 1843. Great Italian and French Composers Englishmen return thanks to Providence for not being born anything but an Englishman, in churches and ale-houses as well as in comic operas. The Promise of American Life We know Victoria Falls, because they have eclipsed our own Niagara Falls, and Zanzibar, farther up the Coast, is familiar through comic operas and rag-time. The Congo and Coasts of Africa Now passed a guard in the romantic cloak of a brigand in comic opera and a peaked cap like that of an alguacil. The Magician How this obstacle was removed is far more suggestive of a scene in a comic opera than of a page in history. The Liberation of Italy The duel has been relegated to the realms of comic opera. Whistler Stories You look like a girl out of a comic opera. Charles Rex His eyes danced with excitement, and between the sentences that he jerked out half to himself he whistled a few bars from a comic opera that was making a record run on Broadway. The Port of Missing Men It has gilded balconies, and tossing flags, and comic operas, and leisurely pleasure seekers, and tries always to believe and make the world believe that it is Paris in very truth. Bebee It is said that Meyerbeer has already completed a grand opera with the title of L'Africaine, and is now engaged on a comic opera. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 The scene on the Trent, as described by all parties, both then and later, partakes of the nature of comic opera, yet was serious enough to the participants. Great Britain and the American Civil War The band was playing a selection from a comic opera, and a few voices were singing the careless, sentimental words. Charles Rex Andy looked at her suspiciously, but it was so evident she never meant to quote comic opera, that he merely wondered anew. The Happy Family "This is your very own villa and this is your staff of domestics," he added, indicating the regiment of servants who again bowed low like the chorus in a comic opera. The Motor Maids in Fair Japan Putting aside musical comedy and comic opera, one asks why it is that a great deal of money has been lost at the playhouses and a very large proportion of pieces have been failures. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" I was interested to note that the tune was from a fairly recent comic opera that can hardly have reached the general population of Sweetapple Cove. Sweetapple Cove In the spring of 1840, Merelli hurried from Vienna, saying he needed a comic opera for the autumn season, and wanted work begun on it at once. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians In 1805 he produced a comic opera, The Soldier's Return, which was followed by Catch Him who Can. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature "We have now to see what will become of a fat and prosperous country with a semi-obsolete fleet and a comic opera army." The Great Prince Shan Run the world on the comic opera principle, but be flaming serious about it. The Philanderers He wrote essays—moral, antiquarian, or burlesque; he furbished up his old satires on the worthies of Bristol; he wrote songs and a comic opera, and was miserably paid when he was paid at all. The Rowley Poems Almost as soon as work was begun on the comic opera, Verdi fell ill and was confined to his bed several days. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians "If you ever lose your money, Wally," she said, coming down the remaining stairs, "we'll take up comic opera." Mary Minds Her Business The old Attic Comedy has been variously compared to Charivari, Punch, the comic opera of Offenbach, and a Parisian 'revue de fin d'année.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 Perhaps I write you a comic opera for your company—hein? Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People In the final quarter of the nineteenth century an American adaptation of a French comic opera, 'La Mascotte', was for two or three seasons very popular. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems And in the midst of these crushing trials he was expected to compose a comic opera! The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians The jingling notes of a piano playing an air from a comic opera floated cheerily forth into the magic silence of the Simla pines, and abruptly, almost spasmodically, a cracked voice began to sing. The Way of an Eagle I send you over some of these comic operas by the bearer, with the Sallon, a satire. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) Both Sam and she had good ears, and were always first in the field with the latest comic opera tunes. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People While this happy mingling was going forward I sat somewhat aloof, disconcerted that my cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces were thus crumbling into comic opera. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Haydn called next day and learned the manager had written a libretto of a comic opera which he called "The Devil on two Sticks," and was looking for some one to compose the music. The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Gilbert, William Schwenck, barrister, notable as a play-writer and as the author of the librettos of a series of well-known popular comic operas set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; b. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge His plays are mostly comic operas or farces, and some of them had great success. The Glories of Ireland And you'll take it back when my comic opera goes on tour. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People It was a conception worthy of comic opera; and yet, incredible as it may seem, it is the very view of crime that is today accepted and acted upon by society. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta The difference in the comic operas to ours is, they have no refinement or colours or subtleties to please the eye—all is gaudy and blatant. Elizabeth Visits America I seemed to have seen him a hundred times in comic opera. Further Foolishness In 1775 his comedy, The Rivals, was produced at Covent Garden Theatre; his farce, St. Patrick's Day, or the Scheming Lieutenant, and his comic opera, The Duenna, were staged in the same year. The Glories of Ireland Aloud he said: "When my comic opera goes on tour." Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People This was before the failure of the comic opera and the annihilation of Verdi's family. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 I remember being distinctly impressed by the comic opera setting; the gay costumed soldiers in a crowded French cafe, the big American and the little heroine. In the Claws of the German Eagle When I was a student in London thirty years ago we regarded Japan as a fantastic joke; the comic opera, The Mikado, still preserves that foolish phase for the admiration of posterity. What is Coming? She had never heard the name before, the Broadway brand of comic opera being outside her experience to a degree which would have been inconceivable to Arnold. The Bent Twig Very strange, to unaccustomed eyes and ears, was the effect of this function—half solemn and half grotesque, with an effect intermediate between that of a religious rite and that of a comic opera. The Red Thumb Mark And, in the midst of this terrible anguish, to avoid breaking the engagement I had contracted, I was compelled to write and finish a comic opera! The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 It was now more like a Turkish bath than a comic opera. In the Claws of the German Eagle This comic opera phase came to a head in the famous Drawbaugh case, which lasted for nearly four years, and filled ten thousand pages with its evidence. The History of the Telephone "Wasn't the comic opera, 'Patience,' written about him?" This Side of Paradise We have an army, about the size of a comic opera company, officered largely by society swells who cannot even play good poker, are powerful only on dress parade. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Now, a month's notice is the extremity of punishment, and the old pomp of armed servitors suggests comic opera. The Shuttle "Not for grand opera, not for comic opera even," replied Mrs. Brindley. The Price She Paid But such women as she had a bowing acquaintance with were all on the stage—in comic operas or musical farces. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise It was meant by nature for the realisation of the society of comic operas. Edinburgh Picturesque Notes It is the Spain of comic opera and Montmartre. Of Human Bondage Only two nights before it had been used by the leading actress of a comic opera troupe which had played for three nights at Bonneville. The Octopus : A story of California She first appeared in children's and ingenile parts, and in comic opera, and it was not until 1827, two years after her Paris debut, that her great talents were seen and appreciated. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 A good bit of that hundred and eighty went into a comic opera company that was one of the worst I ever did see. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation The S.R.O. sign has been out at the cozy little home of comic opera ever since Sunday. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California We have no place for him in our scheme of art unless it be in comic opera or in the penny dreadful. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The "Bab Ballads," as well as Mr. Gilbert's comic opera librettos, hinge upon schemes of ludicrous impossibility, which are treated as the most natural proceedings in the world. A Nonsense Anthology The late Mr. Charles Kent, in his Centenary Edition of Lamb's works, printed a comic opera, said, on the authority of P.G. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 Then he jerked his head towards the drawing-room, where Marguerite could be dimly heard playing an air from the latest comic opera with a fine contempt for accidentals. Roden's Corner This seemed to him one of the most piquant combinations he had ever encountered—a bandit and a comic opera singer. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California With your looks, in comic opera—" The girl frowns, and speaks for the first time with some impatience: "And you know well enough my determination about that. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Serse, it must be explained, is a comic opera, and the only comic opera that Handel ever wrote. Handel He sang light and lively music from the comic operas of the day, nay, would even stoop to some popular strain from the music-halls. The Golden Calf He has composed several comic operas and drames; and his pieces, without being good, have always obtained great applause. Paris as It Was and as It Is Let me congrat—" "No, don't, I was married to a comic opera singer, named Lulu Ray. Tales from Bohemia Between the acts the orchestra pattered ragtime and inanities from the new comic operas, while the audience in general took some heart. In the Arena Stories of Political Life With a dog-like faithfulness and docility, this otherwise most turbulent of his sex had followed the object of his affections from music-hall to comic opera, from comic opera to the high places of legitimate drama. The Far Horizon It was as convincing as a scene in comic opera. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories These are a species of comic opera, in which is introduced a great deal of show and bustle. Paris as It Was and as It Is Barry McGettigan sounded the football man in one brief interview one night, between the acts of the comic opera, at the saloon next door. Tales from Bohemia That is true, but still I was not exactly a comic opera villain. The King in Yellow Antonio José, an obscure Jew, composed a number of comic operas, in the vernacular tongue, which had long been banished from the theatre of Lisbon. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities An hour before, David's adventures had been to him a subject of comic opera. The History of David Grieve Young girls and boys represented little comedies and comic operas in the following manner. Paris as It Was and as It Is |
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