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BUFFA - Opera buffa (Italian: [pera bufa]; "comic opera", plural: opere buffe) is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian ...
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Apr 12 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education |
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The comic actress in an opera. |
The leading female singer or role in a comic opera, especially in the 18th-century Italian opera buffa. Now chiefly historical. |
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Opera buffa (Italian: [pera bufa]; "comic opera", plural: opere buffe) is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as commedia in musica, commedia per musica, dramma bernesco, dramma comico, divertimento giocoso. * Especially associated with developments in Naples in the first half of the 18th century, whence its popularity spread to Rome and northern Italy, buffa was at first characterized by everyday settings, local dialects, and simple vocal writing (the basso buffo is the associated voice type), the main requirement being clear diction and facility with patter. * The New Grove Dictionary of Opera considers La Cilla (music by Michelangelo Faggioli, text by Francesco Antonio Tullio, 1706) and Luigi and Federico Ricci's Crispino e la comare (1850) to be the first and last appearances of the genre, although the term is still occasionally applied to newer work (for example Ernst Krenek's Zeitoper Schwergew |