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 (redirect from Les contes d'Hoffmann)
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 (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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The Barber of Seville (play) (redirect from Le Barbier de Seville)
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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The Imaginary Invalid (redirect from Le Malade Imaginaire)
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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La belle Hélène (redirect from Le belle Helene)
(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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