buffa
Speech parts
1. buffa - Noun
2. buffa - Adjective
4. Buffa - Proper noun
Meaning
The comic actress in an opera.
Comic, farcical.
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As in opera buffa, the singers were often masters of the stage and the music, decorating the vocal lines so floridly that audiences could no longer recognise the original melody.
Ashbrok, 1982, p. 29 Immediately busy in the spring months of 1823 with a cantata, an opera seria for the San Carlo, and an opera buffa for the Nuovo, Donizetti also had to work on the revised Zoraide for Rome.
As with his comedies, Goldoni's opera buffa integrate elements of the Commedia dell'arte with recognisable local and middle-class realities.
By contrast, arias in opera buffa (comic opera) were often specific in character to the nature of the character being portrayed (for example the cheeky servant-girl or the irascible elderly suitor or guardian).
Christoph Willibald Gluck thought that both opera buffa and opera seria had strayed too far from what opera should really be, and seemed unnatural.
Another example of Romantic opera buffa would be Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore of 1832.