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opéra comique

[ op-er-uh ko-meek, op-ruh; French aw-pey-ra kaw-meek ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural o·pé·ra co·miques, o·pé·ras co·mique, French o·pe·ras co·miques [aw-pey-, r, a, kaw-, meek].

opéra comique

/ kɒˈmiːk; ɔpera kɔmik /

a type of opera, not necessarily comic, current in France during the 19th century and characterized by spoken dialogue. It originated in satirical parodies of grand opera

Borrowed into English from French around 1735–45

We never made up that quarrel of the Opéra Comique, and I had not desired that we should make it up.

But, alas, the ponies are frightened by something, doubtlessly the red dress of a singer of the Opéra Comique.

"Pelléas," upon which Debussy had been working for ten years, was produced at the Opéra Comique in 1902.

The Lyrique gives a grand performance for the benefit of the wounded, and the Opéra-Comique is preparing another.

In France we have never had—apart from a few attempts in opéra-comique—a recitative that exactly expressed our natural speech.

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