Opera buffa (Italian: [ˈɔːpera ˈbuffa], "comic opera"; pl.: opere buffe) is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian...

Il finto cieco (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte opera buffa, 1786, Vienna) Circe (libretto by Domenico Perelli, opera seria, 1786, Venice) La contessa di...

1849 – 6 May 1849 First Minister Claudio Gabriele de Launay Preceded by Domenico Buffa In office 7 May 1849 – 20 October 1849 Succeeded by Antonio Mathieu...

for thirty years in his hometown of Venice, Italy and worked at the Opera Buffa, at the Chapel of San Marco and at the Grand Opera in Vicenza. By that time...

angustie (opera buffa, libretto by Giuseppe Palomba, 1797, Naples) La donna sensibile o sia Gli amanti riuniti (opera buffa, libretto by Domenico Piccinni,...

La finta parigina (The false Parisienne) is an opera buffa in 3 acts by Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by Francesco Cerlone. The opera premiered...

of which he wrote 39 between 1806 and 1829. Adopting the opera buffa style of Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello, Rossini became the dominant composer...

of Stigliano, and Domenico Marzio Carafa, Duke of Maddaloni. Pergolesi was one of the most important early composers of opera buffa (comic opera). His...

(opera buffa; set by Costantino Roberto 1735 ) I due baroni (opera buffa; set by Giuseppe Sellitto 1736 ) La Rosaura (opera buffa; set by Domenico Sarro...

works follow the traditional forms of the Italian opera seria and opera buffa as well as the German Singspiel. In his maturity, according to music writer...

success. Other notable stage works include Mistero napoletano, L'Opera buffa del Giovedì Santo, and Stabat Mater. He served as artistic director of the...

Bridegroom, or The Rivalry of Three Women for One Lover) is a two-act opera buffa, K. 430, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart between 1783 and 1784. However...

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini...

Galuppi, Domenico Fischietti, and Niccolò Piccinni, both becoming prominent himself and helping to increase the popularity and prestige of opera buffa through...

celebrated Italian composer of opera buffas. Fioravanti was born in Rome. One of the best opera buffa composers between Domenico Cimarosa and Gioacchino Rossini...

regularly performed, it is arguably one of the greatest 18th century opera buffa apart from those by Mozart. Its premiere was the occasion of the longest...

satirical opera intermezzo libretto attributed to Metastasio (Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), written in 1724 to be performed between the acts of Metastasio's...

March 1679[citation needed] – 9 October 1741), known by the pseudonym Domenico Lalli, was an Italian poet and librettist. Amongst the many libretti he...

Salieri to make his debut as a composer of a completely original opera buffa. Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival...

La finta semplice (The Fake Innocent), K. 51 (46a) is an opera buffa in three acts for seven voices and orchestra, composed in 1768 by then 12-year-old...

century was the comic genre of opera buffa born in Naples and it began to spread throughout Italy after 1730. Opera buffa was distinguished from opera seria...

— overlong and undisciplined as it careens between high drama and opera buffa." Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half out...

and prolific librettist working primarily in the dramma giocoso and opera buffa genres. Petrosellini was born in Corneto, Papal State (now Tarquinia, Lazio)...

comedies, he played a significant role in the development of the opera buffa. The Vendramins, who had considerable direct involvement in the management...

Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1985 in Legnano by Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The house specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags...

San Giovanni Grisostomo. The new theatre became associated with the opera buffa repertoire, as the Grimani family preferred to stage opera seria and other...

ripios del maestro Adán (opereta, Madrid, 1807) Il califfo di Bagdad (opera buffa, Naples, 1813) Talla e Dallaton, o sia La donzella di Raab (opera seria...

Cenerentola, which brought to a peak the opera buffa tradition he inherited from masters such as Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello. He also composed...

opera enjoyed great success all over Europe, not only in the field of opera buffa but also in that of opera seria. The Neapolitan school of opera composers...

Italy, the work of Giovanni Paisiello and Domenico Cimarosa was outstanding. Paisiello started in opera buffa (L'idolo cinese, 1767). In 1776 he was invited...