Comic: as. opera buffa, aria buffa.

noun. A female singer of comic music. See buffo and bouffe.

noun. The comic actress in an opera.

noun. a droll or comic air.

noun. a comic opera. See Opera bouffe.

noun. The comic actress in an opera.

"Whereas the Furies’ verse maintains a regular rhyme scheme and forms a coherent antiphonal structure of response and chorus, the mocking tone of their words moves their chorus away from the emotiveness of aria into the narrative realm of fiction that in the opera buffa is largely the domain of recitative."

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