Le mariage aux lanternes (The Wedding by Lantern-Light) is an opérette in one act by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Michel Carré...
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The Marriage of Figaro (play) (redirect from Le Mariage de Figaro)
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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Kurt Gänzl describes the work as "in the rustic vein of Le violoneux and Le mariage aux lanternes". The premiere was at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens...
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Orpheus in the Underworld (redirect from Orphée Aux Enfers)
Orpheus in the Underworld and Orpheus in Hell are English names for Orphée aux enfers (French: [ɔʁfe oz‿ɑ̃fɛʁ]), a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach...
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The Tales of Hoffmann (redirect from Les contes d'Hoffmann)
doll with the appearance of a human, but Hoffmann ignores her ("Une poupée aux yeux d'émail" – A doll with enamel eyes). Coppélius, Olympia's co-creator...
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The Barber of Seville (play) (redirect from Le Barbier de Seville)
The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution (French: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with...
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Offenbach went to Vienna in 1861 to conduct performances of Le mariage aux lanternes and Le violoneux at the Theater am Franz-Josefs-Kai. H. B. Farnie...
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The Imaginary Invalid (redirect from Le Malade Imaginaire)
Imaginary Invalid, The Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire, [lə malad imaʒinɛːʁ]) is a three-act comédie-ballet by...
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Jacques Offenbach (section Orphée aux enfers)
variant of such wordplay in La Périchole: Aux maris ré, Aux maris cal, Aux maris ci, Aux maris trants, Aux maris récalcitrants. ("Husbands who are re–...
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on 26 November 1860 and ran for 42 performances. Un mariage sous la Régence (Guillard, 1850) Le joueur de flûte (Émile Augier, 1850) Valéria (Maquet...
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La belle Hélène (redirect from Le belle Helene)
with larger casts and chorus. The first of these to be produced, Orphée aux enfers, achieved notoriety and box-office success for its risqué satire of...
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Nuit plus douce que le jour ! Ô belle nuit d'amour ! Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses; Loin de cet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour ...
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Le voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) is an 1875 opéra-féerie in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques Offenbach. Loosely based on the 1865 novel From...
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(Pépito, Le mariage aux lanternes), Adolphe Adam (Les Pantins de Violette), Victor Massé (La Reine Topaze), Georges Bizet and Charles Lecocq (Le Docteur...
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success with critics and the audiences. She also sang Fanchette in Le mariage aux lanternes (1857), Crout-ou-pôt in Mesdames de la Halle (1858), Minette in...
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words by Don White, recorded in London in 1977 by Opera Rara Le carnaval des revues and Les hannetons include pre-existing scores but were created under...
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Le papillon (The Butterfly) is a 'fantastic ballet' in two acts (four scenes) of 1860, with choreography by Marie Taglioni and music by Jacques Offenbach...
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2004). Yon, Jean-Claude. La carrière posthume d'un musicien ou Offenbach aux Enfers. In: Histoire, économie et société, 2003, 22ᵉ année, n°2. L'opéra...
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Les brigands (The Bandits) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Meilhac and...
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Saint-Flour (1856) Le 66 (1856) Une demoiselle en loterie (1857) Le mariage aux lanternes (1857) La chatte métamorphosée en femme (1858) Un mari à la porte...
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personal attacks on him, Offenbach attempted to re-launch his career with Le roi Carotte in collaboration with Victorien Sardou; at the same time he got...
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mistress. Love eventually triumphs. The story is based loosely on the play Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Mérimée (1828), and the title character...
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Le roi Carotte (King Carrot) is a 4-act opéra-bouffe-féerie with music by Jacques Offenbach and libretto by Victorien Sardou, after E. T. A. Hoffmann....
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Maguelone CD MAG11188. Diapason, January 2012 (598), p. 93. ("Ronde de la soupe aux choux" (act 3)) Milnes, R. Review of Entre Nous Opera Rara CD set. Opera...
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initiate the locals into the great French repertoire: Les Huguenots and La Dame aux Camélias, La Juive and Les Rendez-vous bourgeois, Phèdre and Passé minuit...
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Die Rheinnixen (redirect from Les fées du Rhin)
Die Rheinnixen (French: Les fées du Rhin; English The Rhine Nixies) is a romantic opera in four acts by Jacques Offenbach. The original libretto by...
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Théâtre du Palais-Royal presented a comedy by Meilhac and Halévy entitled Le Photographe (The Photographer), which featured a character called Raoul Gardefeu...
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himself both in Paris and internationally with his opéras bouffes Orphée aux enfers (1858), La belle Hélène (1864), La vie parisienne (1866) and La Grande-Duchesse...
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Les bavards (English: The Chatterboxes) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach, with a French libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter...
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Saint-Saëns's Le timbre d'argent (libretto written in 1864, first performed in 1877), Gounod's Faust (1859), Roméo et Juliette (1867), and Offenbach's Les contes...
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