And in the midst of these crushing trials he was expected to compose a comic opera!
He had been there twenty years, and he had never before heard of such singing in comic opera.
It was not till a comic opera came along that Eileen was able to take the theatre seriously.
The scene was certainly a strange one—as strange as if taken from a comic opera.
There were straight plays, comic operas, and melodramas.
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But the idea of a full-lengthcomicoperain two acts and with a concluding finale was still relatively new when the first of these operas was performed in 1787.
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Hiller concedes in his autobiography that this was not his initial intention in composingcomicopera.
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Kerzhentsev even stated thatcomicoperawas still needed, although he conceded that this might prove a stiff challenge.
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Neapolitancomicopera(commedeja pe'mmuseca), focusing on the dramatic theory (as it pertains to structure, language, dramaturgy and style) conveyed by early librettists in their works.
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Its libretto is the first of its kind (comicopera) written and published in the country.
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It has been described as the firstcomicopera.
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Her career spanned nearly five decades, from the 1870s, when she first began conducting for touringcomicoperacompanies, until her death in 1929.
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As he was a brilliant and precocious student, he composed his firstcomicoperaalready at the age of 18.
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Pergolesi was one of the most important early composers of "opera buffa" (comicopera).
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Brval wrote symphonies, seven cello concerti, 4 cello sonatas, various chamber music including five sets of cello duets, as well as acomicopera.
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Hammerstein wanted to change her from a grand opera singer tocomicoperavocalist.
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Rospigliosi was an accomplished man of letters, who wrote poetry, dramas and libretti, as well as what may be the firstcomicopera.
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Morlacchi's first operatic works were written in 1807, and were a "farce" and acomicopera.
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Mott believes life is a badcomicopera.
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Sullivan continued to composecomicoperawith other librettists but died four years later.
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