Opera Seria is a serious or tragic opera, and Opera Buffa is a comic opera. Other than that there are more differences between operas of different periods than between the serious and the comic operas.
Opera buffa has comic elements, while opera is strictly dramatic.
Opera Buffa is a comedic opera.Opera Seria is a serious opera.One is "serious" (seria)or dramatic opera, while the other has "comic" touches (buffa) and is lighter in style.
less grandiose than grand opera
Opera buffa was about real people. The music acompanying it was light and humerous.
Opera buffa
Opera buffa has comic elements, while opera is strictly dramatic.
Opera Buffa is a comedic opera.Opera Seria is a serious opera.One is "serious" (seria)or dramatic opera, while the other has "comic" touches (buffa) and is lighter in style.
Opera Seria and Opera Buffa
less grandiose than grand Opera
less grandiose than grand opera
Opera buffa rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century
Opera buffa was about real people. The music acompanying it was light and humerous.
Don GiovanniDon Giovanni has elements of opera buffa, but he called it a dramma giocosa, or a humorous drama. Cosi Fan Tutte is an opera buffa by Mozart.
Opera buffa
18th century comic opera
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera considers La Cilla(music by Michelangelo Faggioli, text by F. A. Tullio, 1706) to be the first genuine opera buffa; but the term refers to any Italian comic opera written approximately between that date and 1850, so it's probably not possible to be sure which was the very first.
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