As you know, in summer and autumn there is an opera buffa to be picked up here and there, which will do to keep one's hand in.
Maria Anna de Amicis (born about 1740), a pupil of Tesi, had been brought from the opera buffa as prima donna to the opera seria by Chr.
The form and style of opera buffa are maintained in all essential points, but with great freedom of treatment.
Even the independent opera buffa preserved much of this parodying reference to the opera seria.
The operabuffa was always written for a specified company, and the {FORMS OF OPERA BUFFA.
It was no doubt also for insertion in an opera buffa that an air for Dorina (217 K.
Italian opera buffa in Paris; and though he had avowedly taken, this as his model, comparison serves only to prove the complete originality of his work.
I also heard an opera buffa by the wonderful genius Mozart; it is called "La Finta Giardiniera.
The pleasure which he had derived during his stay in Italy from the performances of the opera buffa was revived in 1752 at Passy, where he encountered a zealous musical friend, Musard, who shared the same tastes.
The opera buffa was far from adopting in dialect or costume the well-defined character, of the Italian popular comedy, but the resemblance in form is unmistakable.
The development of the intermezzo was rapid, and before long the inconvenience of carrying on two independent dramas simultaneously caused the complete emancipation of opera buffa from opera seria.
OPERA BUFFA was a gradual outgrowth from the opera seria, in which originally comic characters took part in burlesque scenes.
Even then it was only exceptionally introduced during the season or stagione, side by side with the opera seria, although in the German court theatres an opera seria and a buffa were not seldom played alternately during the carnival.
The aria, on the contrary, belonged essentially to musical art, and had been developed at the cost of dramatic truth; opera buffa did not concern itself with either of these facts.
The strict line of demarcation between opera seria and buffa did not exist in Paris.
Just as in an opera seria there must be a display of much learning and good sense, and very little playfulness, so in an opera buffa there must be very little display of learning and a great deal of playful merriment.
The masterly treatment of the orchestra, both in detail and in effects of grouping, would alone suffice to raise these two pieces far above similar movements of the then commonly received opera buffa type.
Towards the evening the duke said,-- "If you go to the Opera Buffa you will please Leonilda.
On the death of the monarch he had been placed at the head of the opera-buffa by the dowager electress, who was passionately fond of music.
Don Giovanni," an opera buffa in two acts, words by Da Ponte, was first produced at Prague, Oct.
It was "La Cambiale di Matrimonio," an opera buffa in one act, and was produced in 1810.
After these first experiments there seems to have been no attempt made to resuscitate opera buffa until the rise of the Neapolitan school in the following century.
But, apart from the freedom and variety of the subjects with which it dealt, the development of operabuffa gave rise to an art-form which is of the utmost importance to the history of opera--the concerted finale.
The music is brilliant and sparkling, and altogether the little opera is one of the best specimens of opera buffa produced in Italy after the time of Rossini.
Donizetti, as we have seen, enriched the repertory of opera buffa with several masterpieces of gay and brilliant vivacity, but few of the lighter works of his contemporaries deserve permanent record.
The other men who devoted themselves to opera buffa during this period my be briefly dismissed.
The introduction of the finale brought the two great divisions of opera into closer connection, and most of the great composers of this period succeeded as well in opera buffa as in opera seria.
The catalogue of Bizet's works is completed by 'Don Procopio,' an imitation of Italian opera buffa dating from his student days in Rome.
Buffa was directed to answer, after having procured the said Supplies without any Charge.
Buffa for a civil medical Appointment at Gibraltar.
Buffa a sure conveyance to the garrison of Gibraltar, and one of His Majesty's transports to receive the presents given to him, as a reward for his merit, and for his good and steady conduct during his stay with us.
Buffa that a Passage in one of His Majesty's Transports to Gibraltar was ordered for him and his Family.
Buffa has been in our royal presence, which is exalted by the bounty of God; and we have been pleased with his medical knowledge and diligent attention; and moreover with the relief he hath given to us.
Buffa carried on, and which all the Representations of Mr. Ross to that Court were unable to effect; which gave rise to a very long and expensive Correspondence between Mr. Ross and Dr.
His operabuffa "Elisir d'Amore" is, when well performed, a very pleasing trifle.
Fischietti [the Archbishop's Capellmeister] will no doubt soon begin to work at his opera buffa (translated into German, his CRAZY opera!
As papa well knows, there is an opera buffa in Naples in spring, summer, and autumn, for which I might write for the sake of practice, not to be quite idle.
The opera buffa was richer in concerted music; and Rossini, speaking broadly, introduced the forms of opera buffa into opera seria.
As Rossini found the opera seria of his day too serious, so he found the opera buffa too broadly comic.
Into opera seria he introduced the most valuable reforms; while for the farce of the old opera buffa he substituted the comedy style in which "Il Barbiere" and "La Cenerentola" are written.
He produced the same year, also at Bologna, an opera buffain two acts, called "L'Equivoco Stravagante.
Footnote 77: The usual title of opera buffa is given to "Don Giovanni" by Mozart in his Thematic Catalogue; in the libretto it is called "dramma giocoso.
He makes some attempt at more delicate characterisation in his Fiordiligi, in which Ferrando partakes, but the remaining characters are all of the usual opera buffa type, and only receive their individual stamp by virtue of the music.
It was probably intended as a sacrifice to the taste of the audience, who expected an opera buffa to make them laugh heartily.
Opera buffa was at that time (1783) far better appointed there, and followed its own bent with far more earnestness and consistency than anywhere in Italy.
In many essential points "Figaro" overstepped the limits of opera buffa proper, and brought to view entirely new elements of dramatic construction.
His sole care has evidently been to apportion the airs and duets indispensable to the chief characters in opera buffa with a due regard to dramatic contrast.
Mozart therefore found himself once more engaged upon an operabuffa in the strict sense of the term.
The parlante or musical declamation over a melodic phrase in the orchestra originated in opera-buffa as developed by Piccini and Paesiello; subsequently Spontini transplanted it into serious opera.
Logroscino is to be remembered for his development of opera-buffa and of the Finale as subsequently applied by Piccini.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
