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    Jacques Offenbach (/ˈɒfənbɑːx/; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly...
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  • Offenbach may refer to: Offenbach am Main, a city in Hesse, Germany Kickers Offenbach, football club VfB 1900 Offenbach, football club Offenbach (district)...
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  • This is a complete list of the 98 operettas of Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880). The stage works of Offenbach (with the two exceptions of the opéras Die Rheinnixen...
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    This is a list of musical compositions by Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880). Offenbach is principally known for his operettas, of which he composed 98 between...
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    Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three...
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    Orpheus in the Underworld (category Operas by Jacques Offenbach)
    aux enfers (French: [ɔʁfe oz‿ɑ̃fɛʁ]), a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed...
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  • Olympic champion épée fencer Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), German born French composer, notable for composing the "Can Can" Jacques Onana (born 1993), Cameroonian...
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  • and Jacques Charon. It portrays the life of the nineteenth century composer Jacques Offenbach. In Paris during the Second Empire, the composer Jacques Offenbach...
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    Francesco Maria Scala. Its music originates from an 1867 work by Jacques Offenbach with the lyrics added by an anonymous author at an unknown time in...
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    with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's Manon. Meilhac was born in the 1st arrondissement...
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    many structural elements established by the light opera works of Jacques Offenbach in France, Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and the works of Harrigan...
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  • a classical piece which figures prominently: the "Barcarolle" by Jacques Offenbach. The album won the Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score...
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    musical theatre. Important operetta composers include Johann Strauss, Jacques Offenbach, Franz Lehár, and Francisco Alonso. The term operetta arises in the...
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    paʁizjɛ̃]) is a Parisian theatre founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta. The current theatre...
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    Auguste Escoffier and named after the operetta La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach. Simpler versions replace poached pears with canned pears and sliced...
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    1747 Jean-Jacques Rousseau worked on but did not finish a pastorale heroïque under the same title between 1774 and 1776 Jacques Offenbach in 1860 completed...
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    written music for the can-can. The most famous is French composer Jacques Offenbach's Galop Infernal in his operetta Orphée aux Enfers (Orpheus in the...
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  • the "Barcarolle") is a piece from The Tales of Hoffmann (1881), Jacques Offenbach's final opera. A duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano, it is considered...
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    opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed considerable success in the 1870s and...
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    Francesco Badini (1791) Orpheus in the Underworld, an operetta by Jacques Offenbach (1858) Orpheus und Eurydike, an opera by Ernst Krenek (1926) Orpheus...
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    His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, known in English as Orpheus in the Underworld...
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  • Annina, La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi) Antonia, The Tales of Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach) Clorinda, La Cenerentola (Gioachino Rossini) Despina, Così fan tutte...
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    19th century, particularly associated with the works of composer Jacques Offenbach. Born in Bordeaux, where she studied with Schaffner, she made her...
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  • The Tales of Hoffmann (1951 film) (category Jacques Offenbach)
    of their production company The Archers. It is an adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann, itself based on three short stories...
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  • critical acclaim and awards; her first was Offenbach – Colorature, a collection of coloratura arias by Jacques Offenbach on the occasion of his bicentenary,...
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    architect Charles Duval, its name refers to Ba-ta-clan, an operetta by Jacques Offenbach. Since the early 1970s, it has been a venue for rock music. On 13...
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  • fille du régiment (Gaetano Donizetti) Olympia, Les contes d'Hoffman (Jacques Offenbach) Oscar, Un ballo in maschera (Giuseppe Verdi) Zerbinetta, Ariadne...
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    Strauss II, an admirer of the French-language operettas composed by Jacques Offenbach, composed several German-language operettas, the most famous of which...
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    believed by some to be a source of the legend Bluebeard (1941), by Jacques Offenbach, choreographed by Michel Fokine Blaubarts Traum (Bluebeard's Dream)...
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    Grinda - Paris 2009 : La Vie parisienne by Jacques Offenbach - Massy 2009 : Fame by José Fernandez, Jacques Levy, Steve Margoshes, dir Ned Grujic - Theatrical...
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