The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was...
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Opéra comique (French: [ɔpeʁa kɔmik]; plural: opéras comiques) is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the...
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Opera comique may also refer to: Opéra comique, a genre of French opera Opéra-Comique, a Parisian opera company Opera Comique, theatre in London Opera...
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The Opera Comique was a 19th-century theatre constructed in Westminster, London, located between Wych Street, Holywell Street and the Strand. It opened...
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but in 1976, the Opéra-Comique was restored. In 1990, the Opéra moved its primary venue to the new Opéra-Bastille, becoming the Opéra de Paris, although...
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Carmen (redirect from Carmen opera)
the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions...
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Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique and opéra bouffe. Comic...
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associated with a particular theatre, for example opéra comique at the theatre of the same name, or opéra bouffe at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens. This...
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Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique and opéra bouffe. M. Elizabeth...
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complete list of operas by the French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). Several of Massenet's operas were premiered by the Opéra-Comique in Paris, first...
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Jodie Devos (category 21st-century Belgian women opera singers)
second-prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2014. Based at the Opéra-Comique in Paris from 2014, she appeared internationally, with a focus on the...
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Jules Massenet (category French opera composers)
his operas. Between 1867 and his death forty-five years later he wrote more than forty stage works in a wide variety of styles, from opéra-comique to grand-scale...
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play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as Singspiel and Opéra comique. In traditional...
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André Messager (category French opera composers)
at the head of the Opéra-Comique, the Paris Opéra, the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden...
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Théâtre Lyrique (redirect from Opéra National Lyrique)
one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century (the other three being the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique, and the Théâtre-Italien)...
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Manon (redirect from Manon (opera))
Manon (French pronunciation: [manɔ̃]) is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based...
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Adolphe Adam (category French opera composers)
bid to open a new opera house in Paris in competition with the Opéra and Opéra-Comique. He recovered, and extended his activities to journalism and teaching...
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Georges Bizet (category French opera composers)
and 1860 had had works staged at the Opéra. Although French composers were better represented at the Opéra-Comique, the style and character of productions...
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of the same name. It premiered at the Salle Favart in Paris by the Opéra-Comique on 30 April 1902; Jean Périer was Pelléas and Mary Garden was Mélisande...
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Salle Favart (redirect from Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique)
officially the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, is a Paris opera house and theatre, the current home of the Opéra-Comique. It was built from 1893 to 1898 in...
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The Tales of Hoffmann (redirect from The Tales of Hoffmann (opera))
(The Adventures of New Year's Eve), 1814. The opera was first performed in a public venue at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881, without the third (Venice)...
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La fille du régiment (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse. Donizetti wrote the opera while living in Paris between 1838 and 1840...
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Henri Meilhac (category French opera librettists)
José Maria, three-act opéra comique (with Eugène Cormon), music by Jules Cohen, Opéra-Comique, 16 July 1866: La Vie parisienne, opéra bouffe in 5 acts (with...
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Habanera (aria) (category Opera excerpts)
ʁəbɛl]; "Love is a rebellious bird"), an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opéra comique Carmen. It is the entrance aria of the title character, a mezzo-soprano...
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over French opera in the second half of the eighteenth century, particularly over the emerging form known as opéra comique. Opéra comique began life in...
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to opera seria. It quickly made its way to France, where it became opéra comique, and eventually, in the following century, French operetta, with Jacques...
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Mary Garden (category 19th-century Scottish women opera singers)
first decade of the 20th century. She became the leading soprano at the Opéra-Comique; notably portraying roles in several world premieres, including Mélisande...
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Ernest Guiraud (category American opera composers)
Sylvie, opéra comique (1 act, J. Adenis & J. Rostaing), f.p. 11 May 1864, Opéra-Comique (second Salle Favart), Paris. Le Coupe du roi de Thulé, opéra (3 acts...
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Jacques Offenbach (redirect from Operas by Jacques Offenbach)
substantial cuts demanded by the Opéra-Comique's director, Carvalho. The opera was first seen at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881. Offenbach also...
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Surcouf is a French opéra comique in three acts and a prologue, music by Robert Planquette, libretto by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru, premiered on 6 October...
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