Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.

Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature usually with a happy ending.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.

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