His mind was less agile than Mariana's, and he found more difficulty in spanning the space between sentiment and comic opera.
It was a serio-comic opera, entitled, "La Sorciere.
His career covered the most important changes in the art as coloured and influenced by national tastes, and he is justly regarded as the father of comic opera in his adopted country.
The story is so interesting, so admirably written, that Goethe and Mendelssohn considered it the true model for a comic opera.
Under these conditions he was to write a comic opera, full of sparkle, gaiety, and humour.
Old Days and New Old Days and New 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.
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.
Maikov, and a comic opera in one act, Good Luke, or Here's my day, the words by Kobyakov.
A comic opera comedian, whose humor is so much a matter of individuality, is the last person in the world to be imitated.
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.
Queen of Comic Opera" she was called; and what a vision of loveliness, she was, to be sure!
The whole tone of the piece is masterly; while never overstepping the limits of comic opera, it successfully renders the deep agitation of mind of all the three characters.
A terzet for male voices, which is preserved in duplicate draft, was intended for the first scene of a comic opera.
The best time to go behind the scenes is during the engagement of a burlesque or comic opera company, and I will introduce the reader to a happy crowd of this kind that I once found myself in.
If there is a ballet or a burlesque crowd or comic opera chorus in the theatre the scenes in their rooms will be of a more diversified nature.
But it is remunerative, the writing of comic opera.
This admission was a disappointment to Dick, who had looked forward to the story of a novel love adventure which might easily be worked into a comic opera, Bulgaria offering a suitable background.
Come, let us sit here in front of the Raphael and talk, since we must, of comic opera.
With many pretty smiles he tried to lead the lady into the real story of her past, but Mrs. Forest insisted so well that he was fain to believe that there had been no past in her life suitable to comic opera.
The title of The Gondolier was consequently abandoned, and a novel subject found and put forward as The Village Coquettes, a comic opera of which songs, duets, and concerted pieces were to form constituent parts.
But there is a reason for this, and it is one which goes to the root of the whole question of comic opera.
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.
As for Goetz's "Taming of the Shrew," it was too much like good Rhine wine, and too little like champagne to pass as a comic opera.
She had sung in public since her thirteenth year, at first in church, then in comic opera in Graz and Vienna.
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.
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