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    La jolie parfumeuse is an opéra comique in three acts of 1873 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Hector Crémieux and Ernest Blum...
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    Il ne me reste plus longtemps à vivre et mon seul désir est d'assister à la première." ("Hurry up and stage my opera. I have not much time left, and my...
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    Booth's Theatre, New York, Offenbach conducted La vie parisienne and his recent (1873) La jolie parfumeuse. He returned to France in July 1876, with profits...
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  • composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji to write his Passeggiata veneziana sopra la Barcarola di Offenbach (1955–56). Moritz Moszkowski also wrote a virtuoso...
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  • viaggio a Reims – "Medaglie incomparabili" (Don Profondo) Offenbach: La jolie parfumeuse – "Neighbors Chorus" Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand: Cox and Box –...
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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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    Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire, [ malad imaʒinɛːʁ]) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière...
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    expanded in a four-act "opéra féerie" version, presented at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris, on 7 February 1874. The opera is a lampoon of the ancient legend...
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    brigands: The farmer "Fragoletto" is sung by a mezzo-soprano Offenbach's La jolie parfumeuse: The young clerk "Bavolet" is sung by a soprano Offenbach's Madame...
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    Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution (French: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original...
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    La belle Hélène (French pronunciation: [la bɛl elɛn], The Beautiful Helen) is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words...
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  • Variétés La jolie parfumeuse opéra comique 3 acts Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Ernest Blum 29 November 1873 Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance La Périchole...
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    composed La jolie parfumeuse, which, as with the one-act piece, perfectly suited her talent. The première was on 4 September 1873 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance...
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  • critics. 1. Ouverture (from: La vie parisienne) 2. Allegro moderato (from: Mesdames de la Halle) 3. Polka (from: Le voyage dans la lune) 4. Landler (from:...
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  • 1868 La Périchole, 1868 Vert-Vert, 1869 La princesse de Trébizonde, 1869 Les brigands, 1869 Le roi Carotte, 1872 Fantasio, 1872 La jolie parfumeuse, 1873...
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    mariage sous la Régence (Guillard, 1850) Le joueur de flûte (Émile Augier, 1850) Valéria (Maquet and Jules Lacroix, 1851) Mademoiselle de la Seiglière (Sandeau...
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    ministers in act 3 uses the musical theme "Prenez garde! la Dame blanche regarde!" from Boieldieu's La dame blanche. The device of having a man disguised as...
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    Camille Maurane (baritone) and György Sebők (piano) performing the "Ballade à la lune". More recently Anne Sofie von Otter and Marianne Crebassa have also...
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    La Périchole (French pronunciation: [la peʁikɔl]) is an opéra bouffe in three acts with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic...
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    Vert-Vert (1869) Fantasio (1872) La jolie parfumeuse (1873) Bagatelle (1874) La créole (1875) Madame Favart (1878) La fille du tambour-major (1879) Belle...
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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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    La Vie parisienne (French pronunciation: [la vi paʁizjɛn], Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto...
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    barrel organ based on Le Papillon in addition to rare music from operas (La Diva, La Marocaine) Yon, Jean-Claude. Jacques Offenbach. Éditions Gallimard, Paris...
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  • Tulipatan, La jolie parfumeuse, Lischen et Fritzchen, Madame Favart, Madame l'archiduc, Le mariage aux lanternes, Mesdames de la Halle, M. Choufleuri...
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    Vert-Vert (1869) Fantasio (1872) La jolie parfumeuse (1873) Bagatelle (1874) La créole (1875) Madame Favart (1878) La fille du tambour-major (1879) Belle...
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    the Théâtre de la Renaissance (where she created Mlle Asmodée in 1891 and La femme de Narcisse in 1892, and revived La jolie parfumeuse in 1892, she went...
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    La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques...
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    composer with Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter and Paul Ferrier. The sub-title was La femme à deux maris; the working title during the preparation of the libretto...
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    expanded five-act version was devised for a production at the Théâtre de la Gaîté on 25 February 1875. A Paris revival in 1908 at the Théâtre des Variétés...
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    Vert-Vert (1869) Fantasio (1872) La jolie parfumeuse (1873) Bagatelle (1874) La créole (1875) Madame Favart (1878) La fille du tambour-major (1879) Belle...
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