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    La dame blanche (English: The White Lady) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu. The libretto was written...
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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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  • 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 are from Wild & Charlton 2005, pp. 58–78. Sources Forbes, Elizabeth (1992), 'Boieldieu, Adrien' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed...
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    associated with a particular theatre, for example opéra comique at the theatre of the same name, or opéra bouffe at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens. This...
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    influence began to pervade French opéra comique. Its presence is felt in Boieldieu's greatest success, La dame blanche (1825) as well as later works by...
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    Boîeldieu's La Dame Blanche (Opéra-Comique, Paris), Mitridate, La Donna del lago, Die Zauberflöte, Le Nozze di Figaro and Bastien und Bastienne (Nice), La Clemenza...
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    François-Adrien Boieldieu (category French opera composers)
    this time, the Opéra-Comique was the only theatre to offer opportunities for the hybrid works of the same name, close to classic opera, but containing...
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    (1812). His greatest success was La dame blanche (1825). The greatest champion for the beginning of the grand-opéra was the German Giacomo Meyerbeer....
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    Cendrillon (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    60 out of 98 rehearsals at the Opéra-Comique prior to the premiere. The first performance was given at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 24 May 1899, at the...
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    Théâtre Lyrique Opéra Bastille Opéra-Comique Opéra-National Palais Garnier Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin...
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    one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century (the other three being the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique, and the Théâtre-Italien)...
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  • the last opera that Rossini composed in Italy. 1825 La dame blanche (François-Adrien Boieldieu). Boieldieu's most successful opéra comique was one of...
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    André Messager (category French opera composers)
    at the head of the Opéra-Comique, the Paris Opéra, the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden...
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    Le calife de Bagdad (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    Le calife de Bagdad (The Caliph of Baghdad) is an opéra comique in one act by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu with a libretto by Claude...
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    "mères dugazons" in French opera. Examples of the first are Jenny in La dame blanche and Berthe de Simiane in Les mousquetaires de la reine; of the second,...
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    Adolphe Adam (category French opera composers)
    preparation of his opera La Dame blanche, produced at the Opéra-Comique in December 1825. Adam's piano transcriptions of themes from the opera were published...
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    from the Paris Opéra-Comique on the occasion of a festival in 1896 in honour of Adam de le Hale. His other play, Le jeu Adan or Le jeu de la Feuillee (ca...
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    1929, based on the opera Le Domino noir) Devil-May-Care, directed by Sidney Franklin (1929, based on the play La Bataille de Dames) Fra Diavolo [it],...
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    Eugène Scribe (category French opera librettists)
    Gymnase, and librettos and plays for the Comédie-Française, the Opéra, the Opéra-Comique and seven other theatres. In 1822 he began a collaboration with...
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    in the third act parodies the number of the same name in the opéra-comique La dame blanche, written in 1825 by Boieldieu (Yon 2000, p. [page needed]) Victoria...
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    Georges Bizet (category French opera composers)
    composers faced in the city. The two state-subsidised opera houses, the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique, each presented traditional repertoires that tended...
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    Poulenc, however, wrote the opera specifically for Denise Duval, who had starred as Blanche de la Force in the Paris Opéra premiere of Dialogues. Poulenc's...
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    Les cloches de Corneville (category French-language operas)
    Corneville, sometimes known in English as The Chimes of Normandy) is an opéra-comique in three acts, composed by Robert Planquette to a libretto by Louis...
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  • Les voitures versées (category Opéras comiques)
    Les voitures versées (1808) is an opéra comique in two acts by François-Adrien Boieldieu after Amour et mystère, ou Lequel est mon cousin? (1807) and...
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    de Boulogne. The largest opera houses of Paris are the 19th-century Opéra Garnier (historical Paris Opéra) and modern Opéra Bastille; the former tends...
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    Marie Cabel (category 19th-century Belgian women opera singers)
    Friedrich von Flotow's 2-act opéra-comique Zilda, which received 23 performances. Cabel's other appearances at the Opéra-Comique included revivals of Auber's...
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  • 1825 in music (section Opera)
    December 10 – François-Adrien Boieldieu's opéra comique La dame blanche is premièred by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. Juan Crisóstomo...
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    Gregory Lewis. Le médecin malgré lui (The Doctor in spite of himself) (Opéra comique in three acts, premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique on 15 January 1858)...
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    Azor', opéra de Grétry Op. 113 - La Servante maîtresse, opéra comique de Pergolèse, Fantaisie Op. 114 - La sonnambula, opéra de Bellini, Fantaisie de concert...
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