Keyword

comic opera

Description: An opera genre characterized by humorous or lighthearted subject matter, studied in music history and theatre studies.

Primary topic: Musicology and Musical Analysis (45%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q13220650

OpenAlex ID: keywords/comic-opera

The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna

1999 · Mary Hunter · Princeton University Press eBooks · 213

The Oxford illustrated history of opera

1995 · Choice Reviews Online · 112

The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

1997 · Victor Fell Yellin, Ian Bradley, et al. · Notes · 63

Birth pangs, growing pains and sibling rivalry: musical theatre in New York, 1900–1920

2001 · Orly Leah Krasner · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 61

Comic Opera in Ghana

1976 · E. J. Collins · African Arts · 60

The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan

2009 · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 59

The Musical: A Look at the American Musical Theater

1980 · Richard Kislan · 59

Topics and Opera Buffa

2014 · Mary Hunter · Oxford University Press eBooks · 55

The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan

1936 · Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 52

Opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna

1998 · Choice Reviews Online · 49

Cultural politics at the fin de siecle

1996 · Choice Reviews Online · 49

Gilbert and Sullivan

2010 · Carolyn Williams · Columbia University Press eBooks · 45

Arias for Francesco Benucci

2004 · A-R Editions eBooks · 43

Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Respectable Capers'

2016 · Michael Goron · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 41

The eighteenth-century English burletta

1999 · Phyllis T. Dircks · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 38

Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody

2012 · Sharon Aronofsky Weltman · Nineteenth Century Contexts · 36

The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular

2021 · John Griffiths · Routledge eBooks · 35

The culture of opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna: a poetics of entertainment

1999 · Choice Reviews Online · 35

W. S. Gilbert: A Century of Scholarship and Commentary

1971 · Patti Peete Gillespie, John Bush Jones, et al. · Educational Theatre Journal · 35

Parodies d’opéra au siècle des Lumières

2013 · Pauline Beaucé · Presses universitaires de Rennes eBooks · 33

Gilbert and Sullivan: gender, genre, parody

2011 · Choice Reviews Online · 33

Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century

1998 · Marvin A. Carlson · Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. eBooks · 32

Osmin's rage: philosophical reflections on opera, drama, and text

1989 · Kivy, Peter · Choice Reviews Online · 30

Salieri's Così fan tutte

1996 · Bruce Alan Brown, John A. Rice · Cambridge Opera Journal · 29

Rhythm and Text Setting in "The Mikado"

1990 · Robert Fink · 19th-Century Music · 29

Works count: 13,280

Citation count: 2,771