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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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    III.18) The cat turned into a woman (La chatte métamorphosée en femme, II.18) The coach and the fly (Le coche et la mouche, VII.9) The Cobbler and the Financier...
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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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    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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    The Weasel and Aphrodite (category La Fontaine's Fables)
    Jean de la Fontaine wrote a separate version of this fable, also under the title "The cat changed into a woman" (La chatte metamorphosée en femme, II.18)...
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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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    in love with the shepherd, Aristée (Aristaeus), who lives next door ("La femme dont le coeur rêve"), and Orphée is in love with Chloë, a shepherdess....
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  • Rhapsody (1942) Perchance to Dream (1945) Ba-ta-clan, 1855 La chatte métamorphosée en femme, 1858 Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphée aux enfers) 1858, revised...
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  • Thumbnail for The Barber of Seville (play)
    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 La belle Hélène
    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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  • Thumbnail for The Imaginary Invalid
    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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    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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  • by Sergei Rachmaninoff) (1980) Pas de légumes (music by Gioachino Rossini) (1982) La chatte métamorphosée en femme (music by Jacques Offenbach) (1985)...
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  • Thumbnail for List of compositions by Jacques Offenbach
    valse mélancolique, Rêverie au bord de la mer, La course en traîneau Harmonies des bois, Op. 76: Le soir, élégie; La chanson de Berthe; Les larmes de Jacqueline...
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    L'Orgie 1832: La Tentation 1834: La Tempête, ou L'Île des Génies 1836: Le Diable Boiteux 1837: La Chatte Métamorphosée en Femme 1839: La Tarentule 1841:...
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    Archived 6 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine; and Heyraud, Violaine. "Oser la nouveauté en usant les ficelles" Archived 5 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Université...
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    works from this period include La belle Hélène (1864), La Vie parisienne (1866), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867) and La Périchole (1868). The risqué...
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  • Mesdames de la Halle opérette bouffe 1 act Armand Lapointe 3 March 1858 Paris, Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul La chatte métamorphosée en femme opérette...
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    George's Opera House in London (as Ching-Chow-Hi) alongside La Chatte métamorphosée en femme (as Puss in Petticoats) and the premiere of Sullivan's The...
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    journal de musique. Paris, 3 January 1858, p3. "La Chatte métamorphosée en femme : opéra-comique en un acte". loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved...
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    directed by Gian Bistolfi (Italy, 1920, based on the play Une femme qui se jette par la fenêtre) Dita di fata, directed by Nino Giannini [it] (Italy,...
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    (Schiller's play The Robbers) and opéra comique (Fra Diavolo and Les diamants de la couronne by Auber). The plot is cheerfully amoral in its presentation of theft...
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    1855 (Fanchette), Le rêve d’une nuit d’été in 1855 (Rosita), La chatte métamorphosée en femme in 1858 (Marianne), Orphée aux enfers in 1858 (L'opinion publique)...
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    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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    Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Jules-Henri (1861). Le Papillon; ballet-pantomime en deux actes et quatre tableaux par M. Taglioni et H. de Saint-George, etc....
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    lanternes (1857), Crout-ou-pôt in Mesdames de la Halle (1858), Minette in La chatte métamorphosée en femme 1858 - her incarnation of both girl and cat was...
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    (another, the 1872 novel Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours, had been adapted for the stage at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin by Verne himself in...
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    Offenbach keeping to his high musical standards. Offenbach's La chatte métamorphosée en femme also has a prominent role for a feline. In anticipation of...
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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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  • 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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