The first operas originated in what country?

Opera buffa was

a. serious opera b. comic opera c. opera in Italian d. opera performed in a dinner theater setting e. opera performed without costumes or scenery

Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov: a. is his greatest composition. b. is based on a novel by Leo Tolstoi concerning a Russian peasant whobecame a great military commander

c. All of these choices. d. was never performed during the composer's lifetime.