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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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    The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier,...
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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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    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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    Chapelle). Kurt Gänzl describes the work as "in the rustic vein of Le violoneux and Le mariage aux lanternes". The premiere was at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens...
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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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    the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, where she made her debut in 1855 in Le violoneux. She enjoyed immediate success and created for Offenbach the role of...
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    successfully in Vienna, London and elsewhere. Another success in 1855 was Le violoneux (The Village Fiddler), which made a star of Hortense Schneider in her...
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  • Nuit plus douce que le jour ! Ô belle nuit d'amour ! Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses; Loin de cet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour ...
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    popularity. While Offenbach's earliest one-act pieces included Les deux aveugles, Le violoneux and Ba-ta-clan (all 1855) did well, his first full-length operetta...
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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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    with the shepherd, Aristée (Aristaeus), who lives next door ("La femme dont le coeur rêve"), and Orphée is in love with Chloë, a shepherdess. When Orphée...
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  • Skinner, Allard, Wellie Ringuette and many others. 1959: Ti-Jean. . . Le Violoneux (Disques London Série Française) 1960: Old Time Fiddle Tunes played by...
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    (Guillard, 1850) Le joueur de flûte (Émile Augier, 1850) Valéria (Maquet and Jules Lacroix, 1851) Mademoiselle de la Seiglière (Sandeau, 1851) Le malade imaginaire...
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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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    Lurette (1880) Opéra féerie Le roi Carotte (1872) Le voyage dans la lune (1875) Whittington (1874) Other types Le violoneux (légende bretonne) (1855) Ba-ta-clan...
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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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    initiate the locals into the great French repertoire: Les Huguenots and La Dame aux Camélias, La Juive and Les Rendez-vous bourgeois, Phèdre and Passé minuit...
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  • words by Don White, recorded in London in 1977 by Opera Rara Le carnaval des revues and Les hannetons include pre-existing scores but were created under...
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    Théâtre du Palais-Royal presented a comedy by Meilhac and Halévy entitled Le Photographe (The Photographer), which featured a character called Raoul Gardefeu...
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  • presented mainly at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens (Le violoneux, Le Roi Boit, Dragonette, Le Duel de Benjamin), the Théâtre-Lyrique (La Demoiselle...
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    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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  • 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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    Les bavards (English: The Chatterboxes) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach, with a French libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter...
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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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    (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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    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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    Heugel, 1859 Geneviève de Brabant, Calmann Lévy, 1882 Noel E and Stoullig E. Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique, 1ere édition, 1875. G Charpentier et...
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  • for regimental schools without author name. He wrote the libretto of Le violoneux by Offenbach with Eugène Mestépès, the comedy la Canne d’un brave homme...
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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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