comic-opera

There's something of the comic-opera incompetent about Weinstein.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Because we offer something more than the comic-opera staged combats that currently mesmerize them.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

How did the comic-opera pastor of a tiny Southern congregation come to dominate the media for the better part of a week, eclipsing countless expressions of outrage from religious and secular groups around the country?

Jim Kenney: Why the Mosque Melee Actually Signals a New Era of Religious Tolerance Jim Kenney 2010

And our comic-opera Mayor, who hadn't attended either of the first two meetings, was in perfect Larry O'Brien form.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

How did the comic-opera pastor of a tiny Southern congregation come to dominate the media for the better part of a week, eclipsing countless expressions of outrage from religious and secular groups around the country?

Jim Kenney: Why the Mosque Melee Actually Signals a New Era of Religious Tolerance Jim Kenney 2010

How did the comic-opera pastor of a tiny Southern congregation come to dominate the media for the better part of a week, eclipsing countless expressions of outrage from religious and secular groups around the country?

Jim Kenney: Why the Mosque Melee Actually Signals a New Era of Religious Tolerance Jim Kenney 2010

So despite critical grumblings about turning backward into the past, the National Opera could hardly have made a better choice for the holidays than to finally offer Paris Ponnelle's witty, effervescent staging of Gioachino Rossini's sparkling comic-opera Cinderella story.

'La Cenerentola' Sparkles on the Paris Stage Judy Fayard 2011

As soon as I alighted, I found one of the "traffic vigils," whose handsome, white pith helmets lend them a comic-opera charm, making them the most approachable of Italian police, though perhaps not the most effectual.

Riding Public Transport, It's L'Avventura Francis X. Rocca 2011

How did the comic-opera pastor of a tiny Southern congregation come to dominate the media for the better part of a week, eclipsing countless expressions of outrage from religious and secular groups around the country?

Jim Kenney: Why the Mosque Melee Actually Signals a New Era of Religious Tolerance Jim Kenney 2010

How did the comic-opera pastor of a tiny Southern congregation come to dominate the media for the better part of a week, eclipsing countless expressions of outrage from religious and secular groups around the country?

Jim Kenney: Why the Mosque Melee Actually Signals a New Era of Religious Tolerance Jim Kenney 2010