Christiane Karg Festival in 2006, as Melia in Mozart's "Apollo et Hyacinthus" and as Weltgeist in his "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots". A year later she appeared there as Madame Silberklang in his "Der Schauspieldirektor" and in a title role of his "Bastien und Bastienne". From the 2008/09 season, Karg was a member of the Frankfurt Opera where she appeared as Susanna in Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro", as Pamina in his "Die Zauberflöte", as Musetta in Puccini's "La bohème", Zdenka in "Arabella" by Richard Strauss, and the title role in Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande". She appeared as Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier"
Comic opera Comic opera Comic opera denotes a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a new operatic genre, "opera buffa", emerged as an alternative to "opera seria". It quickly made its way to France, where it became "opéra bouffon", and eventually, in the following century, French "operetta", with Jacques Offenbach as its most accomplished practitioner. The influence of the Italian and French forms spread to other parts of Europe. Many countries developed their own genres of comic opera, incorporating the Italian