How to Use comic opera in a Sentence

comic opera

noun
Definition of comic operanext
  • After all, the time is right for audiences to see a comic opera, to leave the problems of the world outside of the theater door.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2023
  • This one is more like a somber minor-key concerto than a comic opera.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 May 2021
  • It’s time for this country to create a comic opera company of its own.
    — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The genius of this 139-year-old comic opera lies in how gracefully Gilbert and Sullivan are able to have their cake and eat it too.
    — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 27 June 2018
  • In 2015, the duo inspired a comic opera based on their unlikely friendship.
    — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Brexit is still, for much of the English public, in its Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera phase.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
  • Nearby vineyards have squabbled over the right to use the image on wine labels, and the story has even inspired a comic opera.
    — Mark A. Walsh, New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • Parker never returned to Jerusalem, and the incident of 1911, if remembered at all, was dismissed in the West as a minor comic opera.
    — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The scene has the noise and color and light of a comic opera in which many incidents occur simultaneously.
    — Helen A. Cooper, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Back in 1894, a traveling comic opera drew crowds to theaters across America.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The Barber of Seville’ — Rossini’s comic opera with lasting pop culture impact tells the story of Figaro, a jack-of-all-trades barber turned matchmaker.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Indeed, historians often compare the mostly bloodless civil wars that characterized California politics during the Mexican period to the wars in comic operas, in which armies march noisily back and forth without ever actually fighting.
    — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020

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