Editing Opera buffa (section)

==Opéra bouffon==
[[Opéra bouffon]] is the French term for the Italian genre of opera buffa (comic opera) 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.<ref>{{Cite Grove|last=Bartlet|first=M. Elizabeth C.|author-link=Elizabeth Bartlet (musicologist)|title=Opéra bouffon|id=43699|year=2001}}</ref>

The term was also later used by [[Jacques Offenbach]] for five of his [[operetta]]s (''[[Orphée aux enfers]]'', ''[[Le pont des soupirs]]'', ''[[Geneviève de Brabant]]'', ''{{ill|Le roman comique|fr|Le Roman comique (opéra)}}'' and ''Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils''<ref>{{IMSLP|work=Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils (Offenbach, Jacques)|cname=''Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils'' (Offenbach)}}</ref>), and is sometimes confused with the French [[opéra comique]] and [[opéra bouffe]].<ref>Notably André-Guillaume Contant d'Orville (''Histoire de l'opéra bouffon'', Amsterdam, 1768, [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k81713/f1.image Vol. I] and [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8172d/f7.image Vol. II]) used the term as a synonym for ''opéra comique'' {{harv|Bartlet|2001}}.</ref>