in French, the original title is Le Rire. Essai sur la signification du comique. As Mark Sinclair comments in Bergson (2020): with this essay 'Bergson...

opera, La guzla de l'émir. As a state-subsidised theatre, the Opéra-Comique was obliged from time to time to stage the works of Prix de Rome laureates...

pieces for the musical theatre. Finding the management of Paris's Opéra-Comique company uninterested in staging his works, in 1855 he leased a small theatre...

(in Italian). People's Daily, French edition (13 May 2010). "Beijing: répétition de Carmen au Grand Théâtre National". Retrieved 17 January 2013 (in French)...

ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886) and opéra comique Véronique (1898) have...

on the opera La muette de Portici) Feenhände [de], directed by Rudolf Biebrach (Germany, 1917, based on the play Les Doigts de fée) Masked Ball, directed...

Academy and the Opéra-Comique were at the top of the hierarchy; followed by the Théâtre de lEmpereur, the new Opera buffa of the Théâtre de l'Impératrice, the...

de Ségur, Paris, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 23 April 1801: La Pièce en répétition, two-act comedy, in prose, with François Roger, Paris, Théâtre Louvois...

caravane du Caire. Minette is last mentioned when she performed in La répétition interrompue by Charles Mozard 4 October 1789. Lise are last mentioned...

from the 1870s until 1920. Though best known for her work at the Opéra-Comique, where she was a trailblazer in modernizing French ballet during the 1900s...

as vaudeville. For this type of performances the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique was created. Its main representatives were François-André Danican...

plaît aux dames (The Fairy Urgèle, or What Pleases Women) is an opéra comique (specifically a comédie mêlée d'ariettes) in four acts by the composer...

Théâtre national de Chaillot. In the world of opera, Podalydès directed the 2017 production of Rossini's Le Comte Ory at the Opéra Comique, Paris, and Falstaff...

the Comptoir général de musique française et étrangère (1878) is remembered for the new translation of Don Giovanni (Opéra-Comique, November 17, 1896,...

the development of opéra comique (and thence, via Jacques Offenbach's opéras bouffes to the genre of operetta). Opéras comiques showing a debt to Rossini's...

conducted the premiere of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande at the Opéra-Comique. It divided musical opinion. Dubois unavailingly forbade Conservatoire...

the same name. It premiered at the Salle Favart in Paris by the Opéra-Comique on 30 April 1902; Jean Périer was Pelléas and Mary Garden was Mélisande...

1901, with De Lucia's replacement by Giuseppe Cremonini the only change from the London cast. For its French premiere at the Opéra-Comique on 13 October...

of the Théâtre des Grands Danseurs de Roi, which later became the Théâtre de la Gaîeté. In 1770, the Ambigu-Comique opened on the same street, followed...

had grown tired of coarse fun and vulgarity and would patronize opéra comique that was clean and pure, with a story to tell, a consistent plot to unfold...

bénéfice des incendiés de Salins 1827 (16 June): L'Avocat, melodrama in 3 acts and extravaganza with Arago at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique 1827 (27 July):...

which were often burlesques and were also sometimes performed at the Opéra Comique. Many of these kinds of burlesques were based on existing French operas...

lighting. Patience moved into the Savoy after six months at the Opera Comique and ran for a total of 578 performances, surpassing the run of H.M.S. Pinafore...

television. That same year the opera The Last Savage premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and that work was given a lavish production at the Metropolitan...

Carré, respectively the musical director and general manager of the Opéra-Comique, Paris, about presenting the opera. Debussy abandoned Dupont for her friend...

other entertainment was performed: male and female impersonators, lions comiques, mime artists and impressionists, trampoline acts, and comic pianists (such...

• Bayreuth Festspielhaus • Staatsoper Berlin • Opéra Bastille • Opéra-Comique • Palais Garnier • La Monnaie • Wiener Staatsoper • Liceu • Royal Opera...

Relâche pour la répétition générale de Fernand Cortez, ou le Grand opéra en province, parody in 1 act, with Rougemont and Merle 1810: Les Époux de trois jours...

what success my opera will have". This included a proposal from the Opéra-Comique for a new opera for them.) By September he was writing to Florimo of being...

Carmen (not an operetta proper but rather a work of the earlier Opéra comique form) was the Jewish Ludovic Halévy, niece of composer Fromental Halévy...