La Basoche is an opéra comique in three acts, with music by André Messager and words by Albert Carré. The opera is set in Paris in 1514 and depicts the...

The Basoche was the guild of legal clerks of the Paris court system under the pre-revolutionary French monarchy, from among whom legal representatives...

Mari de la reine (1889), which failed, although Messager thought it "the best of my flops". Messager's fortunes revived in 1890 with La Basoche, produced...

Although this ran for 160 performances, followed briefly by André Messager's La Basoche, Carte had no other works ready to fill the theatre. He leased it to Sarah...

November 1891 with André Messager's La Basoche at first alternating in repertory with Ivanhoe, and then La Basoche played alone, closing in January 1892...

soties, as too the "Clercs de la Basoche" who also performed morality plays. Like the "Confrères de la Passion", "la Basoche" came under political scrutiny...

soties, as too the "Clercs de la Basoche" who also performed morality plays. Like the "Confrères de la Passion", "la Basoche" came under political scrutiny...

grand opera Ivanhoe in late 1890 and early 1891, and for André Messager's La Basoche in 1891–92. He also worked for Carte at the Savoy as assistant to François...

The unmarried clerks of the royal palace had their own corporation, La Basoche, which celebrated its own holiday with a parade, farces and satirical...

a substantial loss this time), and then La Basoche alone, closing in January 1892. Though praised, La Basoche could not fill the large house, and losses...

repertoire at La Monnaie included Fra Diavolo, Si j'étais roi, Carmen, Les contes d'Hoffmann, Hérodiade, Manon, Mignon, Lakmé and La Basoche from the French...

huge tree shading the meadow. At the front of the stage, clerics from La Basoche and grisettes sit on chairs and chat between themselves. Others are walking...

Louis XII André Messager: La Basoche Masaniello (Tommaso Aniello), Neapolitan fisherman, revolutionary leader Daniel Auber: La muette de Portici (aka Masaniello)...

guilds: Clercs de la Basoche (Paris) – Morality plays Enfants sans Souci (Paris) – Farces and Sotties Conards (Rouen) Confrérie de la Passion (Paris) –...

international reputation, and Carte had already produced Messager's opera La Basoche at his Royal English Opera House in 1891–92. Carte commissioned Messager...

"A ton amour simple et sincère" and "Quand tu connaîtras Colette" from La Basoche, and the 'Air du prieur' from Le jongleur de Notre-Dame. Soulacroix recorded...

Le chalet, La dame blanche, Le domino noir, La fille du régiment, Lakmé, Manon, Mignon, Les noces de Jeannette, Le pré aux clercs, Tosca, La bohème, Werther...

the Duc de Longueville in La Basoche in 1905, Brander in La damnation de Faust and a soldier in The Trojans in 1906, Kezal in La fiancée vendue and a Jew...

in Paris. After a considerable success in 1890 with his opéra comique La Basoche Messager had a series of failures later in the decade. Among these, Madame...

Messager (1853–1929): L'amour masqué, La Basoche, La Béarnaise, Béatrice, Le bourgeois de Calais, Coups de roulis, La fauvette du temple, Fortunio, François...

in Antwerp: Mireille, Madama Butterfly, La traviata, La fille du régiment, La Basoche, Ma mère l'oye, Manon, La poupée de Nuremberg, Resurrection, Lucia...

Madelon in Fortunio, and also sang Colette in La basoche, Micaëla in Carmen, Betly in Le Chalet, Marie in La fille du régiment, Souzouki in Madame Butterfly...

lessons from Ismaël as well as appearing in local premieres of Le Rêve et La Basoche. Later he sang in Nice then in Lyon, where he was praised for his superb...

newly built Royal English Opera House in London. This was followed by La Basoche at the same opera house, after which he returned to Milan for further...

English Opera House for the runs of Sullivan's Ivanhoe and Messager's La Basoche in 1891–92. In the 1890s Cellier began conducting D'Oyly Carte Opera Company...

(Butterfly), La Basoche (Marie d'Angleterre), Fragonard (la Guimard), Fortunio (Jacqueline), Angélique (Angélique), la Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque...

malgré lui (Chabrier) 18 May 1887 Esclarmonde (Massenet) 14 May 1889 La Basoche (Messager) 30 May 1890 L'attaque du moulin (Bruneau) 23 November 1893...

attractive music, "as one might expect of the composer of Isoline and La Basoche", of which highlights cited included couplets for Fugère and the air of...

Périer's other roles at the Opéra-Comique included Clément Marot in La Basoche, Juliano in Le domino noir, Lindorf in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Lescaut...

in La Basoche, Armand in Massenet's Thérèse, Alfredo, Jean in Sapho, Rabaud's Mârouf, Vincent in Mireille, Wilhelm in Mignon, Pedro in Laparra's La habanera...