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    Plus fort que la haine (film, 1913) 1914: La Danse héroïque 1914: La Lutte pour la vie 1914: La Jolie Bretonne 1914: L'Étoile du génie 1915: Le Vieux Cabotin...
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    La Vie parisienne (French pronunciation: [la vi paʁizjɛn], Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto...
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    La belle Hélène (French pronunciation: [la bɛl elɛn], The Beautiful Helen) is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words...
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    Le voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) is an 1875 opéra-féerie in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques Offenbach. Loosely based on the 1865 novel From...
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    La chatte métamorphosée en femme (The cat transformed into a woman) is a one-act opéra comique of 1858 with words by Eugene Scribe and Mélesville, and...
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    La jolie parfumeuse is an opéra comique in three acts of 1873 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Hector Crémieux and Ernest Blum...
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    The Marriage of Figaro (French: La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written...
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    La créole is an opéra comique in three acts of 1875 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Albert Millaud, with additional material...
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  • Thumbnail for La fille du tambour-major
    La fille du tambour-major (The Drum Major's Daughter) is an opéra comique in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Alfred Duru and Henri...
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    Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution (French: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original...
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  • Thumbnail for Mesdames de la Halle
    Mesdames de la Halle is an opérette bouffe in one act by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Armand Lapointe. It was first performed at the Théâtre des...
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    Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire, [ malad imaʒinɛːʁ]) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière...
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    mariage sous la Régence (Guillard, 1850) Le joueur de flûte (Émile Augier, 1850) Valéria (Maquet and Jules Lacroix, 1851) Mademoiselle de la Seiglière (Sandeau...
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    La rose de Saint-Flour is a one-act opérette with music by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Michel Carré, first performed in 1856. The premiere...
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  • composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji to write his Passeggiata veneziana sopra la Barcarola di Offenbach (1955–56). Moritz Moszkowski also wrote a virtuoso...
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    La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques...
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    At Booth's Theatre, New York, Offenbach conducted La vie parisienne and his recent (1873) La jolie parfumeuse. He returned to France in July 1876, with...
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  • Thumbnail for La Périchole
    La Périchole (French pronunciation: [la peʁikɔl]) is an opéra bouffe in three acts with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic...
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    Fé-an-nich-ton reads a book – La Laitière de Montfermeil by Paul de Kock; she notices that Ké-ki-ka-ko is leafing through a copy of La Patrie. They realize that...
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    Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret (category People from La Rochelle)
    memoirs. He is best known for his involvement with Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, whom he met on his arrival in Paris in 1766. He died 27 June 1823 in...
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    La Princesse de Trébizonde is an opéra bouffe with music by Jacques Offenbach and text by Étienne Tréfeu and Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. The work was...
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  • Thumbnail for La chanson de Fortunio
    La chanson de Fortunio (The Song of Fortunio) is a short opéra-comique in one act by Jacques Offenbach with a French libretto by Ludovic Halévy and Hector...
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    ministers in act 3 uses the musical theme "Prenez garde! la Dame blanche regarde!" from Boieldieu's La dame blanche. The device of having a man disguised as...
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    Il ne me reste plus longtemps à vivre et mon seul désir est d'assister à la première." ("Hurry up and stage my opera. I have not much time left, and my...
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  • Thumbnail for Un mari à la porte
    Un mari à la porte (A Husband at the Door) is an opérette in one act of 1859 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Alfred Delacour...
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    Opéra-Comique. Based on the 1734 poem « Vert-Vert ou les voyages du perroquet de la visitation de Nevers » by Jean-Baptiste Gresset, the opera found little success...
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  • Thumbnail for La permission de dix heures
    La permission de dix heures is an opéra comique in one act, composed in 1867 by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto, by Mélesville and Pierre Carmouche...
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  • critics. 1. Ouverture (from: La vie parisienne) 2. Allegro moderato (from: Mesdames de la Halle) 3. Polka (from: Le voyage dans la lune) 4. Landler (from:...
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    La bonne d'enfant (The Nanny) is an opérette bouffe, in one act by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Eugène Bercioux. It was first performed at...
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    Le roi Carotte (1872) Le voyage dans la lune (1875) Whittington (1874) Other types Le violoneux (légende bretonne) (1855) Ba-ta-clan (chinoiserie musicale)...
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