Andromaque, Antigone, Antigone, Bérénice, Hernani, Iphigénie, Le Roi s'amuse and Les Femmes savantes. Le Figaro said that Bartet served the Comédie-Française with...
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story was the inspiration for a character in Victor Hugo's 1832 play Le roi s'amuse who became Count Monterone when Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi...
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required the Devil himself to sort out. Hence Ashton's alternate title: Le Diable s'Amuse. During the 1940s, Zoritch had a parallel career in Broadway musicals...
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droits de Mozart et de Weber 1859: Paris s'amuse !, comédie en vaudevilles in 3 acts, with Saint-Agnan Choler 1859: Le rouge-gorge, vaudeville in 1 act, with...
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Mantua. Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse) is set in Mantua. Austro-Hungarian authorities in Venice forced him...
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d'une œuvre: Les écrivains face à Simenon". Cahiers de l'Herne (in French). 102: 221–225. « Je tiens Simenon pour un grand romancier : le plus grand peut-être...
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Saverny is attacked, and Didier rushes to help him, thereby earning the Marquis' thanks. The Encounter. The scene is the door of a cabaret, where a group...
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play about Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I Victor Hugo, Le roi s'amuse (1832) – scathing, banned play about French King Francis I (and, indirectly...
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Palais-Royal theater: Salvador 1850: Le Sopha by Eugène Labiche, Mélesville and Charles Desnoyer, Palais-Royal theater: the Marquis de Haute-Futaie 1850: The Well-Guarded...
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L'incomparable, Mirobolanpouff, parade charlatanesque, music by Vialon, 1857 Jeanne s'amuse en chemin, ditty, music by Clapisson, 1857 J'trouve ça bête ! (Petite revue...
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1851), with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave (1810-1876), after Le roi s'amuse ("The king amuses himself", Paris, 1832) by Victor Hugo (1802–1885)...
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