Geneviève de Brabant (French pronunciation: [ʒənvjɛv də bʁabɑ̃]) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach, first performed in Paris in 1859...
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(1843) Genoveva, opera by Robert Schumann (1850), which draws on Hebbel's play and also on Tieck's poem Geneviève de Brabant, opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach...
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soupirs, Geneviève de Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique...
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soupirs, Geneviève de Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique...
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virtue had already been spoofed by Jacques Offenbach in his Opéra bouffe Geneviève de Brabant (1859, revised 1867). In this vein the satirical tone of the...
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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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La Vie parisienne (operetta) (redirect from La Vie parisienne (opera))
parisienne (French pronunciation: [la vi paʁizjɛn], Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Henri...
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founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta. The current theatre is located in the 2nd arrondissement...
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Orpheus in the Underworld (category 1858 operas)
bouffon" at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, on 21 October 1858, and was extensively revised and expanded in a four-act "opéra féerie" version, presented...
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Barbe-bleue (French pronunciation: [baʁb blø], Bluebeard) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in three acts (four scenes) by Jacques Offenbach to a French...
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Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau (redirect from Opéra-Bouffe)
([titʁ de məny plɛziʁ]; 1866–1874, 1877–1879, 1882–1888), then Théâtre des Arts ([teatʁ dez‿aʁ]; 1874–1876, 1879–1881), Opéra-Bouffe ([ɔpeʁa buf]; 1876–1877)...
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The Barber of Seville (play) (redirect from Barbier de Séville)
original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The...
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compositions, who composed several operettas: Geneviève de Brabant (1899), Pousse l'amour (1905), Le Piège de Méduse (1913). Also worth mentioning are Jacques...
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prolific year for the composer, that included also the third version of Geneviève de Brabant, Les hannetons, La boulangère a des écus, La créole and a waltz for...
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The Tales of Hoffmann (redirect from O Dieu! de quelle ivresse)
"Hâtez-vous de monter mon opéra. 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...
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The Garden of Mystery, Cadman, 1925 La gazza ladra Rossini, 1817 Geneviève de Brabant, Offenbach, 1859 Genoveva Schumann, 1850 Das Gesicht im Spiegel,...
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Emily Soldene (category 19th-century British women opera singers)
Theatre, London, in 1872 in another production of Geneviève de Brabant and as Mlle. Lange in La fille de Madame Angot in 1873. Soldene was also, for several...
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Jacques Offenbach (redirect from Operas by Jacques Offenbach)
was another work that leaned more to romantic comic opera than to the more ebullient opéra bouffe. It was well received, but has been less often revived...
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The Marriage of Figaro (play) (redirect from Le Mariage de Figaro)
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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revised Opéra-bouffe version of Geneviève de Brabant 1875: Offenbach's opéra-féerie Le voyage dans la lune 1876: Victorin Joncières's opera Dimitri 1877:...
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Boule-de-Neige is an opéra bouffe in three acts premiered in 1871 with music composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Charles Nuitter and...
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L'île de Tulipatan (The Island of Tulipatan) is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in one act by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by...
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La Périchole (category Opéras bouffes)
peʁikɔl]) is an opéra bouffe in three acts with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The opera depicts the mutual...
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double bill of Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury and Offenbach's Geneviève de Brabant. After Morton a succession of managements between May 1876 and September...
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(1859), Gratioso and other roles in the first version of Geneviève de Brabant (1859), Les Bouffes-Parisiens in Le carnaval des revues (1860), Catarina in...
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Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (category Opéras bouffes)
Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins is a one-act opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Adolphe Jaime and Étienne Tréfeu, first performed...
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Charles Martel, Duke and Prince of the Franks Jacques Offenbach: Geneviève de Brabant Charmian, servant to Cleopatra Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra...
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tambour-major, Le financier et le savetier, Geneviève de Brabant, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, L'île de Tulipatan, La jolie parfumeuse, Lischen et...
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M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . . (category Opéras bouffes)
at home on... ) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in one act by Jacques Offenbach and the Duc de Morny (under the pseudonym "M. de St Rémy"). The French...
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Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour (category Opera excerpts)
final opera. A duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano, it is considered the most famous barcarolle ever written and described in the Grove Book of Operas as...
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