He shall be known as Buffo and you are his sponsor.
As she laid her hand in his at parting her eyes were full of wistful entreaty: "Be good to Buffo and my roan, and very, very good to yourself!
Far better be a Buffogoat And court the booze bot-tel.
There was nothing the buffo and his brother could not explain, and what this implies a glance through the notes to the Orlando Furioso, which is only a fragment of the complete story, will show.
The buffo explained that they knew this was to be their last chance, and that if they did not cure him in two hours they were to be burnt with the Christians.
The buffo nearly wept when I told him I had gone away without seeing the operation.
There is so much renovation going on among the puppets that the buffo cannot tell exactly how many there are at any particular time.
He is a very common man," said the buffo apologetically; "a fellow of no education.
The Italians, however, distinguish the buffo cantante, which requires good singing, from the buffo comico, in which there is more acting.
A descriptive and spirited buffo duet between Falstaff and Ford follows, in which the former relates his adventures in the hamper.
Olivieri was announced to appear in his old character; but when the bill was shown to the General, he declared that the original representative might go back to bed, for that the only buffo he would listen to was the illustrious Paer.
Olivieri, who previously had been pronounced unapproachable in Portogallo's opera, was now looked upon as quite an inferior singer compared to the buffo caricato who had so unexpectedly presented himself before the Udine public.
So they talked away till it was time to go; and then Miss Ella kissed her little visitors; and Buffo wanted to kiss them too, with his warm red tongue; but Luly took good care to be out of the way this time.
He wore round his neck a relic of St. Buffo (the tip of the saint's ear, which had been cut off at Constantinople).
Now, by my blessed patron, Saint Buffo of Bonn, had any other but Ludwig of Hombourg so said, I would have cloven him from skull to chine.
The finale (7), on the other hand, is altogether in the liveliest buffo tone.
La mia eccellenza, la prepotenza soffrir non de," indicates a grand buffo part such as never occurs in any other opera.
Mozart has shown correct judgment in making Guillelmo' a natural, good-humoured character, instead of a caricatured buffo figure.
There is something of a comic tone in this, but the gravity of the situation does not allow it to go beyond a mere shade, and even this rapid parlando ought not to assume a really buffo character.
In the "Barber of Seville" we find the same Bartolo as a buffo character.
The quartet (6) in which the lovers converse from afar has less of a buffo character and more true feeling; the two pairs of lovers are clearly distinguished, and their characteristics sharply defined.
Of the German male singers they had indeed dismissed Fischer, whose loss Mozart rightly declared to be irreparable, but in Benucci they acquired a bass buffoof the first rank.
There was Pozzolini, the tenor, fat Badially, the bass, jolly Rocco the buffo singer and Alfred Jael the rising young pianist, merriest of them all.
Her mother sang and the buffo singer gave some of his songs.
In the old-fashioned Italian operas of the buffo type there are plenty of chattering songs in which the humour, such as it is, consists in the words being uttered so rapidly that any greater rapidity of utterance would seem to be impossible.
On these occasions the buffo did not get drunk, the barytone rested from the torments of his lawsuit, the alto had a charming smile for the sympathetic house, the soprano was as peaceful as a mine immediately after an explosion.
The buffo was an inveterate toper who had often been placed behind bars by the police for his nocturnal excesses.
The buffo told me that the Christians in Paris were not armed, but they all got safely away to Montalbano.
Just as the buffo dominates all the marionettes in the teatrino," I interpolated.
I got there from Caltanissetta just before the train from Palermo arrived, and the buffo was looking out of the window.
I passed over the anticipation of steam and contented myself with asking the buffo whether the song had been composed so long ago and also whether its popularity had extended from Naples into Spain.
The first thing to be done was to go out and get something to eat, and as we went along the buffo expressed his delight with the appearance of Catania.
I had hitherto supposed the dictionaries to be right in defining a miracle as an event contrary to the established course of nature, but the buffotook me behind the scenes to study the miracle by which the tomb opened.
I do not remember expressing myself precisely in these words, but the buffo wrote me an account of his holiday and this is what he says I said.
He sang the tenor songs of many operas and other popular melodies, especially I remember his singing the Stornelli Montagnoli, which is so beautiful that the buffo said it would save itself in the Escape from Paris.
Dante is the Emperor of Words, but the buffo is the Emperor of Deeds.
I told you so," exclaimed the buffo triumphantly; "they have met in paradise and are happy at last.
They indulge in a buffo trio, which develops into a spirited bacchanal ("Wine, Wine, the Magician thou art!
It is followed by a buffo duet between Carmen and Florio, who agree to marry.
In the third scene occurs a long buffotrio between Peter, Gritzensko, and Danilowitz, which is full of humor.
A buffo trio between himself and his captors follows, in which Gione penetrates his disguise and recognizes him.
In the second scene Figaro enters, and after some brief recitatives sings the celebrated buffo aria, "Largo al factotum," in which he gives an account of his numerous avocations.
A buffo trio closes the act, Sam and Tom supplying the humorous element with their laughing refrain.
The story of the opera is very complicated, and sometimes tiresome; but the music is well sustained throughout, especially the buffo numbers, while some of the ballads are among the best ever written by an English composer.
The custom also arose of providing unworthy comic effects for the buffo characters, such as the mimicry of natural sounds, quick speaking, and others that have become gradually extinct.
Both the comic and the pathetic aspects are combined in the Contino Belfiore, whose burlesque character appears to have been excellently represented by the buffo Rossi.
He takes part elsewhere in comic scenes and situations; but his first appearance as a vain, supercilious coxcomb is misleading and inconsistent, and only intended to give occasion for a grand buffo air (8).
The conclusion of this song (15), beingbuffo in character, readjusts the situation.
The pride and loquacity with which Belfiore details his genealogy are wittily rendered by Mozart; but as a buffo song this evident concession to the taste of the singer and the public is without marked individuality.
The part was cast for Laschi, whom Sonnenfels[25] praises as a cultivated artist, and a buffo actor of the most refined and intelligent type.
Besides her, a dilettante attracted the attention of the auditory by singing several buffo things in the genuine Italian caricature style.
The buffo singer, whose name I do not remember, was also very excellent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buffo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
