• Opéra comique (French: [ɔpeʁa kɔmik]; plural: opéras comiques) is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the...
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    The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was...
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  • Le Cocher de fiacre, melodrama in 3 acts, with Alexis Decomberousse and Naigeon, Paris, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, 25 August 1825. Gustave, ou le Napolitain...
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  • Henri-Montan Berton his father. He died of cholera. 1810: Le Présent de noces, ou le Pari, one-act opéra comique, music by Henri François Berton, Théâtre Feydeau...
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    Alexis Dupont (1796 – 29 May 1874) was a French operatic tenor who sang at the Opéra-Comique from 1821 to 1823 and the Paris Opera from 1826 to 1841. There...
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  • two children, Alexis et Victor. He wrote several parodies of operas and tragedies, mainly for the Théâtre de la foire and the Opéra-Comique. He is mostly...
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  • Alexis Jacques Marie Vafflard 1824: Grétry, opéra comique in 1 act, with Paul Ledoux and Ramond de la Croisette 1824: Le Voyage à Dieppe, with Alexis...
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  • Barbier had already written and presented in Bourges a small one-act opéra comique, Le Mariage de Colombine, but considered moving to Paris. Presented by influential...
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  • Le déserteur (The Deserter) is a drame mélé de musique (opéra comique) by the French composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny with a libretto by Michel-Jean...
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    Périer's other roles at the Opéra-Comique included Clément Marot in La Basoche, Juliano in Le domino noir, Lindorf in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Lescaut in Manon...
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  • Alexis Decomberousse, full name Alexis Barbe Benoît Decomberousse, (13 January 1793 – 22 November 1862) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevillist...
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    Le tonnelier, opéra comique (1765) Le faux Lord, opéra comique (1765) Les pêcheurs, opéra comique en 1 act (1766) Toinon et Toinette, opéra comique (1767)...
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  • music by Nicolas Dalayrac, created 31 October at the Opéra-Comique (salle Favart) 1790: Le Chêne patriotique ou la Matinée du 14 juillet 1790, impromptu...
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    l'Opéra-Comique (2° Salle Favart), 1 December 1841 La Sainte-Cécile, opéra comique in three acts, libretto by Jacques-François Ancelot and Alexis Decomberousse...
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    Theatre 1799: Le Rêve, opéra comique in 1 act and in prose, lyrics by citizen Étienne, music by citizen Gresnich, Paris, Opéra-Comique, 8 pluviôse an...
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    1877 Le Sabbat (opéra comique), 1877, incomplete La Girondine (opéra), 1878, lost Une éducation manquée (opérette), 1879 Les muscadins (opéra), 1880...
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    wrote more than forty stage works in a wide variety of styles, from opéra-comique to grand-scale depictions of classical myths, romantic comedies, lyric...
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    Le Jugement de Midas (The Judgement of Midas) is a French comédie mêlée d'ariettes (a kind of opéra comique), in three acts by André Grétry dedicated...
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    Louise herself had studied. Louis made his debut at the Opéra-Comique as Daniel in Le chalet on 16 March 1881. At La Monnaie in Brussels, Delaquerrière...
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    Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (French: [ɛmanɥɛl ʃabʁie]; 18 January 1841 – 13 September 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family...
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    The Salle Le Peletier or Lepeletier (sometimes referred to as the Salle de la rue Le Peletier or the Opéra Le Peletier) was the home of the Paris Opera...
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    Comédie-Italienne in Paris in 1790, as a baritone in the role of Alexis in Monsigny's Le déserteur, and the following year as a tenor in Dalayrac's Philippe...
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  • both dramatists. Le Roi de Rome, drama in 5 acts and 10 tableaux, with Charles Desnoyer, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, 13 June 1850 Les Femmes de Gavarni...
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  • the Opéra-Comique repertoire: Fra Diavolo, Le songe d'une nuit d'été, Les Mousquetaires de la reine, Zampa, Le Postillon de Lonjumeau, Le Petit chaperon...
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    Médée (Cherubini) (category Opéras comiques)
    Médée is a French language opéra-comique by Luigi Cherubini. The libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman (Nicolas Étienne Framéry) was based on Euripides'...
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    than for the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique and there are structural inconsistencies with the contemporary opéra comique genre: whereas the latter consists...
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    Opéra-Comique included Chiquito (the title role), La Danseuse de Pompéi (as Hyacinthe), Fortunio (title role), La Marchande d'allumettes (Gréham) Le Mariage...
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    work in opéra comique. In 1780 he also led the first exploration of the Grotte des Demoiselles. His librettos include Nina, L'irato, and Les deux petits...
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  • traitant, three-act opéra comique, in prose and vaudevilles (22 March 1716, Foire Saint-Germain) Les Amours de Nanterre, opéra comique in one act in collaboration...
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  • Ambigu-Comique, 20 October 1832 Sophie ou le Mauvais ménage, drama in 3 acts (with Francis, music by M. Adrien), Paris, Ambigu-Comique, 2 August 1832 Le Septuagénaire...
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