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    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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    Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three...
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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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  • Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institution for Blind Youth) in Paris. A student at the school, Louis Braille, used the tools and Barbier's idea of communicating...
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    forme meme des letters, les cartes de geographie, les figures de geometrie, les caracteres de musiques, etc., a l'usage des aveugles (in French). Institution...
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    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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    Le voyage dans la Lune (French pronunciation: [lə vwajaʒ dɑ̃ la lyn], A Trip to the Moon) is an 1875 opéra-féerie in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques...
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    Les deux aveugles (French pronunciation: [le døz‿avœɡl], The Two Blind Men or The Blind Beggars) is an 1855 one-act French bouffonerie musicale (operetta)...
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  • The text, concerning the beauty of the night and of love, is by Jules Barbier. Barcarolle Computer-synthesized (MIDI) version Problems playing this file...
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    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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    M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le... (Mr. Cauliflower will be at home on... ) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in one act by Jacques Offenbach and the...
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    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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    programme, but the most popular work of the evening had words by Moinaux. Les deux aveugles, "The Two Blind Men", is a comedy about two beggars feigning blindness...
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    Le violoneux is a one-act operetta (« légende bretonne » - Breton legend) by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Eugène Mestépès and Émile Chevalet...
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    (2001), and Santa Fe Opera starring Susan Graham (2003). The reviewer in Le Journal amusant thought the piece had all the expected Offenbach qualities:...
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    Les brigands (French pronunciation: [le bʁiɡɑ̃], The Bandits) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac...
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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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    Le roi Carotte (French pronunciation: [lə ʁwa kaʁɔt], King Carrot) is a 4-act opéra-bouffe-féerie with music by Jacques Offenbach and libretto by Victorien...
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  • Thumbnail for Le financier et le savetier
    Le financier et le savetier (The financier and the cobbler) is a one-act opérette bouffe of 1856 with words by Hector Crémieux and Edmond About, and music...
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    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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    Le 66 is an opérette in one act of 1856 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin (Paul Aimé...
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    Les bergers is a three-act opéra comique of 1865 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Hector Crémieux and Philippe Gille. It belongs...
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    Le docteur Ox is an opéra bouffe in three acts and six tableaux of 1877 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Arnold Mortier and...
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    libretto by Jules Barbier, unfinished, first performed, without the 'Giulietta' act, at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881. Le papillon (1860) — ballet-fantastique...
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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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    Hamlet (Thomas) (category Libretti by Jules Barbier)
    French composer Ambroise Thomas, with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier based on a French adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, père, and Paul Meurice...
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  • Thumbnail for Tromb-al-ca-zar, ou Les criminels dramatiques
    Tromb-al-ca-zar, ou Les criminels dramatiques is a bouffonnerie musicale in one act of 1856 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by...
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    almost simultaneously that year, the others being La Boulangère a des écus and Le Voyage dans la lune. La créole was premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens...
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  • Brésilien (from: La vie parisienne) 13. Valse (from: Les contes d'Hoffmann) 14. Duel (from: Le voyage dans la lune) 15. Valse (from: La Périchole) 16...
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    Parisiens, Paris, on 30 September 1868. It was revived by the Compagnie Les Brigands at the Théâtre de l'Athénée as part of a double-bill with Croquefer...
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