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    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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    In 1858 Offenbach produced his first full-length operetta, Orphée aux enfers ("Orpheus in the Underworld"), with its celebrated can-can; the work was...
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  • (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    La chatte métamorphosée en femme (The cat transformed into a woman) is a one-act opéra comique of 1858 with words by Eugene Scribe and Mélesville, and...
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    (1682) Actéon (1685) Les arts florissants (1685) La descente d'Orphée aux enfers (1687) David et Jonathas (1688) Médée (1693) Ballet The Imaginary Invalid...
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    with her. From inside the house, Rosine sings a verse to the tune of Maître en droit, requiting his affections, before she is caught by someone else inside...
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    Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7 Sadler, Graham (1992), "Tragédie en musique" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    Introduction and valse mélancolique, Rêverie au bord de la mer, La course en traîneau Harmonies des bois, Op. 76: Le soir, élégie; La chanson de Berthe;...
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    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 Greek...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    Une demoiselle en loterie is a one-act opérette bouffe of 1857 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Adolphe Jaime and Hector Crémieux...
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    Le château à Toto (Toto’s castle) is an opéra bouffe in three acts of 1868 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Henri Meilhac and...
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  • 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, à la...
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    Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Jules-Henri (1861). Le Papillon; ballet-pantomime en deux actes et quatre tableaux par M. Taglioni et H. de Saint-George, etc....
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    leaves, Frantz sings a comical song about his talents "Jour et nuit je me mets en quatre" – "Day and night, I quarter my mind." After Crespel leaves his house...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    the curious nuns from Nantes, he was sent there with a Loire boatman and en route naturally acquires some of the sea-faring vocabulary. On arrival in...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    Strasbourg, 2018, pp. 32–37. A role for a dog had in fact occurred in Orphée aux enfers two years before : Cerbère (Cerberus), the three-headed guardian of the...
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    early 19th century; the libretto, by the successful team from Orphée aux enfers, also nods towards the operas La reine de Chypre (1841) and Haydée (1847)...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    which Offenbach had built and furnished with the royalties from Orphée aux Enfers. Théo's success in Pomme d'api stimulated Offenbach to create a full-length...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    (1861) Opéra bouffe Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857) Orphée aux enfers (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Barkouf (1860) M. Choufleuri restera...
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    April 1860 for the Emperor at the Théâtre-Italien, along with Orphée aux enfers and Le musicien de l’avenir. Offenbach went to Vienna in 1861 to conduct...
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