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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 comic operas variously classified by their authors as commedia in musica , commedia per musica , dramma bernesco , dramma comico , divertimento giocoso .
Benucci, one of the premier buffos in opera buffa, combines unaffected, excellent acting with an exceptionally round, beautiful, and full bass voice. He is as much a complete singer as a choice actor. He has a rare habit that few Italian singers share: he never exaggerates. Even when he brings his acting to the highest extremes, he maintains ...
Celeste Coltellini (26 November 1760 - 24 July 1828) was an Italian soprano.She was a well-known singer of opera buffa in Europe in the late 18th century. [1]Born in Livorno, Celeste was the daughter of a librettist, Marco Coltellini.
Francesco Carattoli (1704 or 1705 – March 1772) was an Italian bass buffo, or singer of opera buffa.. Carattoli was born in Rome, and began singing in the 1740s.He sang in a number of comic operas in various parts of Italy through the 1740s, 1750s, and early 1760s, by composers such as Gaetano Latilla, Baldassare Galuppi, Domenico Fischietti, and Niccolò Piccinni, both becoming prominent ...
Giovanna Sestini (6 April 1749 – 14 July 1814) was a soprano opera singer who performed in her native Italy, in Portugal, and from 1774 in London, where she lived for the rest of her life. For many years she was the popular prima buffa (or first woman) in comic opera at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket.
Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, opera buffa, emerged as an alternative to opera seria.
Looking for inspiration for a work to send home, he found the subject for his opera buffa in a second-hand bookstall in Rome, writing home that the piece by Carlo Cambiaggio (1798–1880) was "an Italian farce in the manner of Don Pasquale". The words were a reduced version of I pretendenti delusi (1811) by Giuseppe Mosca (1772–1839). [1]
Valentino Fioravanti. Valentino Fioravanti (11 September 1764 – 16 June 1837) was a celebrated Italian composer of opera buffas.. Fioravanti was born in Rome.One of the best opera buffa composers between Domenico Cimarosa and Gioacchino Rossini, he was especially popular in Naples, and was the first in Italy to introduce spoken dialogue in the French manner in his works, sometimes using the ...