Opéra bouffon
Opéra bouffon is the French term for the Italian genre of opera buffa performed in 18th-century France, either in the original language or in French translation. It was also applied to original French opéras comiques having Italianate or near-farcical plots.
The term was also later used by Jacques Offenbach for five of his operettas, and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique and opéra bouffe.
