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    The Opéra-Comique (French pronunciation: [ɔpeʁa kɔmik]) is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian...
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    Fantasio is an 1872 opéra comique in 3 acts, 4 tableaux, with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto by Paul de Musset was closely based on the...
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    (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)...
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  • List of operettas by Jacques Offenbach (category Operas by Jacques Offenbach)
    fantastique'. There are 24 opéras comiques, and 24 opéras bouffes, together with 2 'opéras bouffes féeries'. Other minor subgenres include opéra bouffon (5), bouffonnerie...
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    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 play...
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    the world of opera, Podalydès directed the 2017 production of Rossini's Le Comte Ory at the Opéra Comique, Paris, and Falstaff at the Opéra de Lille conducted...
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    Rihab Chaieb (category 21st-century Canadian women opera singers)
    conducted by Lorenzo Viotti, and her performances as Fantasio in Offenbach’s opéra comique at Opéra de Montpellier, Dorabella in Così fan tutte at Teatro...
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    Marianne Crebassa (category 21st-century French women opera singers)
    Berlioz version at the Opéra studio in 2011, she reprised the part at the Opéra-Comique in 2018. In February 2017 for the Opéra Comique, she appeared in the...
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    Célestine Galli-Marié (category 19th-century French women opera singers)
    director of the Opéra-Comique, heard her performing Balfe's The Bohemian Girl at Rouen and brought her to Paris. She sang at the Opéra-Comique until 1885,...
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    Pépito is a one act opéra comique of 1853 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto is by Léon Battu and Jules Moinaux, inspired by an 1825...
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    based on Musset's story Namouna. In 1872 Offenbach composed an opéra comique Fantasio with a libretto by Paul de Musset closely based on the 1834 play of...
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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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    Robinson Crusoé (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    Robinson Crusoé is an opéra comique with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Eugène Cormon and Hector-Jonathan Crémieux. It premiered in Paris on...
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    substantial cuts demanded by the Opéra-Comique's director, Carvalho. The opera was first seen at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881. Offenbach also...
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    Léon Melchissédec (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    Juliette at the Opéra-Comique in 1873, he sang Mercutio when it transferred to the repertory of the Opéra. Melchissédec left the Opéra in 1891 but rejoined...
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    the Opéra Comique. Once there, she created the role of Henriette in Daniel Auber's Rêve d'amour on 20 December 1869. She remained at the Opéra Comique until...
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    Jean-Vital Jammes (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    Mantua in Offenbach's Fantasio (Opéra-Comique, Paris 18 January 1872) Marquis Moncontour in Delibes' Le roi l'a dit (Opéra-Comique, Paris, 24 May 1873)...
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    between Fribourg Opera, the Opéra de Lausanne and Opéra Éclaté was seen at the 34th Festival de Saint-Céré. There were performances at Opéra de Reims in 2016...
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    Thomas Jolly (category French opera directors)
    Eliogabalo by Francesco Cavalli at the Opéra Garnier 2017: Fantasio by Jacques Offenbach at the Opéra Comique 2018: A Garden of Silence, a musical show...
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    Joseph-Antoine-Charles Couderc (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    operatic tenor (and later baritone) prominent on the stages of the Opéra Comique in Paris where he created numerous roles. Couderc was born in Toulouse...
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  • Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins, Daphnis et Chloé, Les deux aveugles, Fantasio, La fille du tambour-major, Le financier et le savetier, Geneviève de Brabant...
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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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    Orpheus in the Underworld (category 1858 operas)
    doubling the length of the score and turning the intimate opéra bouffon of 1858 into a four-act opéra féerie extravaganza, with substantial ballet sequences...
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    libretto lampoons both serious drama (Schiller's play The Robbers) and opéra comique (Fra Diavolo and Les diamants de la couronne by Auber). The plot is...
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    Hoffmann (1881) — opera, libretto by Jules Barbier, unfinished, first performed, without the 'Giulietta' act, at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881...
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    Vert-Vert (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    with the same name: an opéra-comique in one act by Nicolas Dalayrac with libretto by Desfontaines created at the Opéra-Comique (Salle Favart) on 11 October...
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    The Marriage of Figaro (play) (category Plays adapted into operas)
    basis for an opera with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte and music by Mozart, also called The Marriage of Figaro (1786). In 1799, another opera based on the...
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    Gänzl and Lamb 1992, p. 296 Yon 2000, pp. 663 & 670 Programme note, Opéra Comique, Paris, May 2014. Éditions Montparnasse page for La vie parisienne Archived...
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    La belle Hélène (category 1864 operas)
    Hélène (French pronunciation: [la bɛl elɛn], The Beautiful Helen) is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri...
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    Boule-de-Neige (category French-language operas)
    de la Gaîté a month later, and three days after that Fantasio was first seen at the Opéra-Comique. Keck asserts that musically Boule-de-Neige inhabits...
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