Barbe-bleue (French pronunciation: [baʁb blø], Bluebeard) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in three acts (four scenes) by Jacques Offenbach to a French...
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Hélène, Barbe-bleue (Bluebeard), La Vie parisienne, La Périchole and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein. Bartlet, M. Elizabeth C. (2001). "Opéra bouffe (Fr...
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Barbe-bleue may refer to: Barbe-bleue (opera), opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach Barbe-bleue, a 1943 radio opera by Jacques Ibert Barbe-bleue...
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Henri Meilhac (category French opera librettists)
(with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 3 December 1866: Barbe-bleue, opéra bouffe in 3 acts and 4 tableaux (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques...
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List of operettas by Jacques Offenbach (category Operas by Jacques Offenbach)
opérette bouffe, and there is a single 'opérette fantastique'. There are 24 opéras comiques, and 24 opéras bouffes, together with 2 'opéras bouffes féeries'...
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"The Walk to the Paradise Garden". 1907 Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Paul Dukas). Dukas's only surviving opera, based like Debussy's Pelléas, on a Symbolist drama...
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Jacques Offenbach (redirect from Operas by Jacques Offenbach)
was another work that leaned more to romantic comic opera than to the more ebullient opéra bouffe. It was well received, but has been less often revived...
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La belle Hélène (category Opéras bouffes)
Hélène (French pronunciation: [la bɛl elɛn], The Beautiful Helen) is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac...
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La Vie parisienne (operetta) (redirect from La Vie parisienne (opera))
parisienne (French pronunciation: [la vi paʁizjɛn], Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Henri...
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Jacques Ibert (category French opera composers)
written, in part in a simple folklike style. The opéra bouffe Gonzague is another essay in the old opera bouffe style. L'Aiglon, composed jointly with Honegger...
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The Tales of Hoffmann (redirect from The Tales of Hoffmann (opera))
The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier,...
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Orpheus in the Underworld (category 1858 operas)
bouffon" at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, on 21 October 1858, and was extensively revised and expanded in a four-act "opéra féerie" version, presented...
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Hortense Schneider (category 19th-century French women opera singers)
Bertin, Pierre. 123, Avenue de Versailles. In: Programme book for Barbe-Bleue, Opéra du Rhin, December 1996, p101. La valse de Paris at IMDb Le guide...
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Dukas's colourful Symbolist drama, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (1907). The more frivolous genres of operetta and opéra comique still thrived in the hands of composers...
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La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (category Opéras bouffes)
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 Offenbach...
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between Fribourg Opera, the Opéra de Lausanne and Opéra Éclaté was seen at the 34th Festival de Saint-Céré. There were performances at Opéra de Reims in 2016...
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The Barber of Seville (play) (redirect from Figaro (character in operas and plays))
original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The...
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Boule-de-Neige (category Opéras bouffes)
Boule-de-Neige is an opéra bouffe in three acts premiered in 1871 with music composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Charles Nuitter and...
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Les brigands (redirect from The Brigands (opera))
Les brigands (French pronunciation: [le bʁiɡɑ̃], The Bandits) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac...
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Fantasio (Offenbach) (redirect from Fantasio (opera))
Fantasio is an 1872 opéra comique in 3 acts, 4 tableaux, with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto by Paul de Musset was closely based on the...
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and Halévy 1866: Barbe-bleue by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Meilhac and Halévy 1867: La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach...
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Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (category Opera excerpts)
final opera. A duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano, it is considered the most famous barcarolle ever written and described in the Grove Book of Operas as...
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Michel Caron (tenor) (category 20th-century French male opera singers)
like The White Horse Inn (1960) and opéra-bouffe La Périchole with Jean Le Poulain and Roger Carel, and Barbe Bleue with Jean Le Poulain and Arlette Didier...
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Emily Soldene (category 19th-century British women opera singers)
starred in her usual repertory with the English Comic Opera Company, adding La belle Hélène, Barbe-bleue, Trial by Jury, The Waterman, Poulet et Poulette,...
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Shakespeare, directed by Jean Meyer, Théâtre antique de Fourvière 1972: Barbe-Bleue opéra-bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, livret Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy,...
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Pattie Laverne (category 19th-century British women opera singers)
April 1916) was an English singer and actress, playing leading roles in opéra bouffe. Laverne was born in London, and was initially a concert soprano singer...
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Opera in New York and Szeged and the Opéra d'Avignon A multi-faceted lyrical artist, he sings in both operettas, operas bouffe and classical operas in...
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The Marriage of Figaro (play) (category Plays adapted into operas)
basis for an opera with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by Mozart, also called The Marriage of Figaro (1786). In 1799, another opera based on the...
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): Lilith, Nicholas and Alexandra Paul Dukas (1865–1935): Ariane et Barbe-Bleue Thomas Dunhill (1877–1946): Tantivy Towers Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708–1775):...
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complete list of the operas and operettas of the French composer Charles Lecocq (1832–1918). Lecocq wrote 21 opéras comiques, 12 opéras bouffes, eight opérettes...
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