How to Use comic opera in a Sentence

comic opera

noun

• This one is more like a somber minor-key concerto than a comic opera.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 7 May 2021
• After all, the time is right for audiences to see a comic opera, to leave the problems of the world outside of the theater door.
  — Michelle F. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2023
• Nearby vineyards have squabbled over the right to use the image on wine labels, and the story has even inspired a comic opera.
  — Mark A. Walsh, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• His formidable rich voice voice always carried the gaiety of a comic opera basso.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• In 2015, the duo inspired a comic opera based on their unlikely friendship.
  — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2020
• The scene has the noise and color and light of a comic opera in which many incidents occur simultaneously.
  — Helen A. Cooper, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
• Brexit is still, for much of the English public, in its Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera phase.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
• Back in 1894, a traveling comic opera drew crowds to theaters across America.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 25 Jan. 2018
• The genius of this 139-year-old comic opera lies in how gracefully Gilbert and Sullivan are able to have their cake and eat it too.
  — Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader, 27 June 2018
• Sometimes the Chief Executive and his inner circle resemble characters in a comic opera.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Jan. 2026
• Parker never returned to Jerusalem, and the incident of 1911, if remembered at all, was dismissed in the West as a minor comic opera.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
• The one-act comic opera about small-town life in 1960s Central Mexico blends stories of faith, family, mystery and migration.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2023
• The Barber of Seville’ — Rossini’s comic opera with lasting pop culture impact tells the story of Figaro, a jack-of-all-trades barber turned matchmaker.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 31 Oct. 2019
• Henry, for instance, not only sang in the Southern Presbyterian Church choir, but also performed with a roving quartet and appeared in comic operas.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Feb. 2024
• Twentieth-century composers like Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein shaped this art form, built on the comic opera and vaudeville, into something special.
  — Abraham Swee, USA Today, 29 June 2026
• And because New York doesn’t have a comic opera company, MasterVoices fills a crucial, consistently entertaining niche.
  — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Indeed, historians often compare the mostly bloodless civil wars that characterized California politics during the Mexican period to the wars in comic operas, in which armies march noisily back and forth without ever actually fighting.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• The season includes shows by Samuel Beckett, Agatha Christie and comic opera duo Gilbert and Sullivan, but also contemporary Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage and relative up-and-comers Kimberly Belflower and Jonathan Spector.
  — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026