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    Fra Diavolo, ou L'hôtellerie de Terracine (Fra Diavolo, or The Inn of Terracina) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer Daniel Auber...
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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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    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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    neige (1823), Léocadie (1824), Le Maçon (1825) and Fra Diavolo (1830). He also tried grand-opéra with La muette de Portici (La muette de Portici, 1828)...
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  • greatly to establish his reputation. 1830 Fra Diavolo (Daniel Auber). One of the most popular opéra comiques of the 19th century, Auber's tale loosely...
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    French opéra comique. Its presence is felt in Boieldieu's greatest success, La dame blanche (1825) as well as later works by Daniel Auber (Fra Diavolo, 1830;...
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  • works designated as comédie, comédie mêlée de chant, intermède, opéra féerie, opéra historique, scène lyrique and scène-prologue. All were premiered...
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    Daniel Auber (category French opera composers)
    41 years and produced 39 operas, most of them commercial and critical successes. He is mostly associated with opéra-comique and composed 35 works in that...
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    lampoons both serious drama (Schiller's play The Robbers) and opéra comique (Fra Diavolo and Les diamants de la couronne by Auber). The plot is cheerfully...
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  • Jérôme Deschamps (category French opera directors)
    Macha Makeieff), Théâtre de Nîmes 2008 : Fra Diavolo opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber, Opéra-Comique 2010 : Un fil à la patte by Georges Feydeau...
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  • French composer celebrated for high-spirited opéra comiques such as Fra Diavolo and Le domino noir. His grand opera La muette de Portici attained unexpected...
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    Salle Ventadour (category Opera houses in Paris)
    Auber's Fra Diavolo (as L'hôtellerie de Terracine) on 28 January 1830, and Ferdinand Hérold's Zampa on 3 May 1831. After 22 March 1832 the Opéra-Comique left...
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  • Baritone (category Opera terminology)
    Melchissédec and Jean Noté of the Paris Opera and Gabriel Soulacroix, Henry Albers and Charles Gilibert of the Opéra-Comique. The Quaker baritone David Bispham...
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    Marie Cico (category 19th-century French women opera singers)
    She made her debut in Fra Diavolo (Pamela) on 10 March 1870, and on 24 February 1872 took part as Suzanne in the Opéra-Comique premiere of The Marriage...
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    Geneviève-Aimé-Zoë Prévost (category 19th-century French women opera singers)
    some of the most notable French opéras comiques of the first half of the nineteenth century, including "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel Auber and "Le postillon...
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  • Jérôme Savary (category French opera directors)
    of opera Savary's first production was La Périchole in Geneva in 1982. Other important early work in the genre included Anacreon and Fra Diavolo at La...
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    Jean-Baptiste Chollet (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    Hague. After four years' absence he returned to Paris and joined the Opéra-Comique in 1835, where he had successes in Le Chalet by Adolphe Adam (1834)...
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    Le pré aux clercs, Fra Diavolo (including the 500th performance in March 1863), and a revival of Joseph in 1866. At the Paris Opera, Deldevez conducted...
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    Fernand Francell (category 20th-century French male opera singers)
    a pupil of Isnardon in the opéra comique class and with Rose Caron in vocal studies. He made his debut at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in September 1906...
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  • Achille-Félix Montaubry (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    by Berlioz) and lead to further important roles in the Opéra-Comique repertoire: Fra Diavolo, Le songe d'une nuit d'été, Les Mousquetaires de la reine...
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  • Barnolt (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    at the Opéra-Comique on 23 July 1870 as Dandolo in Zampa and went on to become one of the "most useful and faithful servants of the Opéra-Comique". He sang...
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    Eugène Scribe (category French opera librettists)
    Gymnase, and librettos and plays for the Comédie-Française, the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique and seven other theatres. In 1822 he began a collaboration with...
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    Moreau-Sainti for her opéra comique training, both in which she would win first prizes.[citation needed] Lefebvre debuted at the Opéra-Comique on 12 October 1849...
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  • Ernest Carbonne (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    association with the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Carbonne studied at the Conservatoire de Toulouse [fr], gaining first prizes in opéra comique and acting in 1887...
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  • On 15 April 1833, he made his debut at the Opéra-Comique in Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's Fra Diavolo. The first role he created was in the Prison...
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    Charles Santley (category 19th-century British male opera singers)
    but he did stage Fra Diavolo (with himself in title role), and, in the lead-up to Christmas, The Waterman. Performances of Fra Diavolo continued through...
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    Don Giovanni, Spontini's La vestale, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Weber's Der Freischütz and many other operas by Donizetti, Meyerbeer and Rossini. In 1833 Antonio...
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    Gioachino Rossini (category Italian opera composers)
    to the development of opéra comique (and thence, via Jacques Offenbach's opéras bouffes to the genre of operetta). Opéras comiques showing a debt to Rossini's...
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  • André Dran (category 20th-century French male opera singers)
    restricted to France and who left several complete opera recordings. Dran appeared at the Paris Opéra-Comique from 1953 to 1970, undertaking roles such as Pomponnet...
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    Emma Vecla (category 19th-century French opera singers)
    conservatory. She made her début at the Opéra-Comique in 1898 as Filina in Ambroise Thomas' Mignon. At the Opéra-Comique, she also played the title role in...
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