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...

Opéra comique (French: [ɔpeʁa kɔmik]; plural: opéras comiques) is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the...

The Opera Comique was a 19th-century theatre constructed in Westminster, London, located between Wych Street, Holywell Street and the Strand. It opened...

Opera comique may also refer to: Opéra comique, a genre of French opera Opéra-Comique, a Parisian opera company Opera Comique, theatre in London Opera...

Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique and opéra bouffe. Comic...

regard to opera, with primarily the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique in operation. The naming situation became somewhat confusing after the Opéra-Comique's theater...

the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions...

associated with a particular theatre, for example opéra comique at the theatre of the same name, or opéra bouffe at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens. This...

complete list of operas by the French composer Jules Massenet (1842–1912). Several of Massenet's operas were premiered by the Opéra-Comique in Paris, first...

his operas. Between 1867 and his death forty-five years later he wrote more than forty stage works in a wide variety of styles, from opéra-comique to grand-scale...

play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as Singspiel and Opéra comique. In traditional...

at the head of the Opéra-Comique, the Paris Opéra, the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden...

Manon (French pronunciation: [manɔ̃]) is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based...

over French opera in the second half of the eighteenth century, particularly over the emerging form known as opéra comique. Opéra comique began life in...

and 1860 had had works staged at the Opéra. Although French composers were better represented at the Opéra-Comique, the style and character of productions...

Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique and opéra bouffe. Bartlet...

bid to open a new opera house in Paris in competition with the Opéra and Opéra-Comique. He recovered, and extended his activities to journalism and teaching...

Bouffes-Parisiens, inspiring the genre's name. It differs from the opéra comique of the same period for elements of comedy, satire, parody and farce...

officially the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, is a Paris opera house and theatre, the current home of the Opéra-Comique. It was built from 1893 to 1898 in...

performed on 11 February 1840 by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse. Donizetti wrote the opera while living in Paris between 1838 and 1840...

Sylvie, opéra comique (1 act, J. Adenis & J. Rostaing), f.p. 11 May 1864, Opéra-Comique (second Salle Favart), Paris. Le Coupe du roi de Thulé, opéra (3 acts...

second-prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2014. Based at the Opéra-Comique in Paris from 2014, she appeared internationally, with a focus on the...

(The Adventures of New Year's Eve), 1814. The opera was first performed in a public venue at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881, without the third (Venice)...

Reszkes could be heard, as Josephine de Reszke sang Salomé. In 1887 the Opéra-Comique moved into the theatre after its previous home, the second Salle Favart...

to opera seria. It quickly made its way to France, where it became opéra comique, and eventually, in the following century, French operetta, with Jacques...

l'émir (The Guzla of the Amir), opéra comique, (J. Barbier & M. Carré; composed ca. 1862; unperformed) Ivan IV, opéra, 5 acts, (F.-H. Leroy & H. Trianon;...

the Opéra-Comique commissioned Georges Bizet to write an opera based on the novel Carmen by Prosper Mérimée. The rehearsals for the finished opera were...

one-act opéra comique, with Adolphe de Leuven, music by Adolphe Adam, Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, 28 February 1835 L'Éclair, three-act opéra comique, with...

one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century (the other three being the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique, and the Théâtre-Italien)...

ʁəbɛl]; "Love is a rebellious bird"), an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opéra comique Carmen. It is the entrance aria of the title character, a mezzo-soprano...