Sullivan continued to compose comic opera with other librettists but died four years later.
Mott believes life is a bad comic opera.
Morlacchi's first operatic works were written in 1807, and were a "farce" and a comic opera.
Rospigliosi was an accomplished man of letters, who wrote poetry, dramas and libretti, as well as what may be the first comic opera.
Hammerstein wanted to change her from a grand opera singer to comic opera vocalist.
Brval wrote symphonies, seven cello concerti, 4 cello sonatas, various chamber music including five sets of cello duets, as well as a comic opera.
Pergolesi was one of the most important early composers of "opera buffa" (comic opera).
As he was a brilliant and precocious student, he composed his first comic opera already at the age of 18.
