Opera buffa has comic elements, while opera is strictly dramatic.
Opera buffa was about real people. The music acompanying it was light and humerous.
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 buffa
18th century comic opera
Mozart
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.
Shakeperan Mozart and Rossini, among others.
Opera Seria and Opera Buffa
Opera buffa has comic elements, while opera is strictly dramatic.
Opera buffa rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century
Opera buffa was about real people. The music acompanying it was light and humerous.
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.
Allesandro Scarlatti, Johann Adolf Hasse, Leonardo Vinci, Nicola Porpora, George Frideric Handel, Tommaso Traetta, Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and others.
Opera buffa
18th century comic opera
Buffa