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Jacques Offenbach by Nadar, c. 1860s. 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 Étienne Tréfeu, adapted from that by Eugène Scribe and Henry Boisseaux for Offenbach's earlier Barkouf (1860). [1]
Le papillon (1860) — ballet-fantastique in 2 acts (libretto: Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, choreography: Marie Taglioni). The only full length ballet composed by Offenbach; it was performed at the Paris Opera on 26 November 1860 and ran for 42 performances.
Paris, Théâtre des Variétés La foire Saint-Laurent: opéra bouffe: 3 acts: Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, and Albert de Saint-Albin: 10 February 1877: Paris, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques: Maître Péronilla: opéra bouffe: 3 acts: Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter, Paul Ferrier and Offenbach: 13 March 1878: Paris, Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle ...
Offenbach by Nadar. Jacques Offenbach (/ ˈ ɒ f ən b ɑː x /; [n 1] 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
Barbe-bleue (French pronunciation: [baʁb blø], Bluebeard) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in three acts (four scenes) by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy [1] based on Charles Perrault's 1697 story.
In 1958 a notable production was mounted at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, with Jean-Pierre Granval, Jean Desailly, Pierre Bertin, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Parédès, Suzy Delair, Madeleine Renaud, Simone Valère, and Denise Benoît. The Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique mounted the work in 1931 and
At the première, the Ronde des Charlatans, interpreted by Zulma Bouffar and Christian, won an encore. [7] The front of the theatre had a large model of the Moon to advertise the new opera. [8] The success of the show, whose première raised 3,898 francs, led to the theatre's receipts passing 10,018 francs with its seventh performance. [9]
Jean-Claude Yon, born Paris, 22 February 1966 is a French academic and historian. He has specialised in the world of 19th century theatre and opera, notably the work of Scribe and Offenbach. He is professor at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.