Opera Bouffe, an opera in an extravagant burlesque style, with characters, music, and other accompaniments to match; is the creation of Offenbach (q.v.), his more distinguished successors in the production of which have been Lecocq, Hervé, and Strauss.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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