comique

comique

(kɒˈmiːk)
n
(Theatre) literary rare a comic actor or singer
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He haf found him when he was a child-der orang-outang-und he was child and brother and opera comique all round to Bertran.
We are like what a music-hall Lion Comique would be without his opera-hat, if such a thing can be imagined.
They went to plays together and sometimes to the gallery of the Opera Comique. There was the Odeon quite near them, and Philip soon shared his friend's passion for the tragedians of Louis XIV and the sonorous Alexandrine.
It was the first time that the young artist sang in this work of Gounod, which had not been transferred to the Opera and which was revived at the Opera Comique after it had been produced at the old Theatre Lyrique by Mme.
The captain gave him a drink of unspeakable gin, and the opera- comique crew, with their hairy throats, red caps, and long knives, greeted him as a brother.
"C'est comique, eh!" she interrupted herself to comment in a melancholy tone.
If I met a working man and his wife in the streets between eleven o'clock and midnight on their way home from the Ambigu Comique, I used to amuse myself by following them from the Boulevard du Pont aux Choux to the Boulevard Beaumarchais.
Adolphe Adams Le Postilion de Lonjumeau (1836) is yet another forgotten gem on a string of rare operas seen over the last few years at Paris' Opera Comique. Indeed, its present Director, Olivier Mantei, has been resolute about finding little-known French operas in cardboard boxes, shaking off the dust, and bringing them to the stage of the venerable Salle Favart with repeated success.
Le coup d'envoi de la deuxieme edition du Festival national du rire ''Comique Benslimane'' a ete donne, samedi soir, a Benslimane.
At the age of twenty-one she was engaged at the Opera Comique, but ...
She achieved immediate success in her Parisian debut in the role of Laurence in Les fetes publiques (1745) after accepting an offer from the playwright and director Charles-Simon Favart (1710-1792) to work at the Opera Comique. In the following years, she continued to win the favor of Charles-Simon (and the public) primarily in pantomime and ballet roles.