opera semiserian.
/ˌɒp(ə)rə sɛmɪˈsɪərɪə/, U.S. /ˈˌɑp(ə)rə ˌsɛmaɪˈsɪriə/, /ˈˌɑp(ə)rə ˌsɛmiˈsɪriə/ Serio-comic opera.
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comic opera1706
grand opera1720
operetta1741
opera comique1742
burletta1748
opera buffa1783
mezzo carattere1806
opera seria1808
light opera1813
tragédie lyrique1823
opera semiseria1825
opera bouffe1842
operette1871
rescue opera1943
Peking opera1953
monodrama1954
opera magica1956
pop opera1964
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1825 Morning Post 19 Mar. 3/1 This evening (Saturday), March 19th, will be performed (for the first time in this country), an Opera Semi-Seria, in one Act,..entitled Adelina.
1895 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 287/2 I had not composed an overture, but I took one which I had designed for an opera semiseria called Elisabette.
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xvi. 290 The stereotyped insipidity of the Italian opera semiseria since Rossini.
1959 Times 21 Aug. 13/2 The world première of Heimo Erbse's Julietta, an opera semiseria.
1970 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music (rev. ed.) 601/2 Opera semiseria is a serious opera including comic elements, e.g., Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.
1999 N. Rossi & T. Fauntleroy Domenico Cimarosa vii. 132 L'apprensivo raggirato..was listed in the libretto published by the theater as a commedia per musica.., while the manuscript score from the first performance..bears the legend opera semiseria.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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