opera-comique

Written at a time when busily contrapuntal late-baroque composition was giving way to the pared-down elegance of the emergent Classical style, Gretry's opera-comique occupies an intriguing middle ground.

Music review: Opera Lafayette's 'Le Magnifique' Joe Banno 2011

Together they composed an _opera-comique_ which had some success.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

The first article appeared two days later in the _Siecle_, and was signed, strangely enough, neither by the little man nor by the great man, but by a third person known in Bohemia for his tom-cat and opera-comique amours (Gerard de Nerval).

Balzac Frederick Lawton

He little thought that Orfeo would ever get so far as Paris, so he appropriated the romanza in the first act and introduced it with but slight modifications into his opera-comique

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

He had the notion of writing an opera-comique in one act, and he asked his favorite collaborators, Jules Barbier and Michael Carre, for a libretto.

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

Instead, they ought to give the people the charming airs which grow, as naturally as daisies on a lawn, in the vast field of opera-comique.

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

I may as well confess that one of the ballets in Henry VIII came from the finale of an opera-comique in one act.

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

“Those who have genius will make opera-comique like mine; those who have talent will write opera like Gluck's; while those who have neither genius nor talent, will write symphonies like Haydn's.”

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

The parts were read to the artists, and the next day Amede Achard threw up his role, declaring that it belonged to grand opera and was beyond the powers of an opera-comique tenor.

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919

On one side were the partisans of Melody, opera-comique, the Italians, and, with some effort, of grand opera.

Musical Memories Saint-Saens, Camille 1919