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    Le pont des soupirs ("The Bridge of Sighs") is an opéra bouffe (or operetta) set in Venice, by Jacques Offenbach, first performed in Paris in 1861. The...
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  • five of his operettas (Orphée aux enfers, Le pont des soupirs, Geneviève de Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and...
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    of Sighs — see Bridge of Sighs (disambiguation). The 1861 opera Le pont des soupirs ("The Bridge of Sighs") by Jacques Offenbach has the name of the...
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  • Bridge of Sighs: Chelsea's 1996–97 Season, a book by Steven Downes Le pont des soupirs (The Bridge of Sighs), a novel by Michel Zevaco The Bridge of Sighs...
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    The Marriage of Figaro (French: La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written...
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    Olympia appear as a real woman ("J'ai des yeux" – I have eyes). Olympia sings one of the opera's most famous arias, "Les oiseaux dans la charmille" (The birds...
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    The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution (French: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with...
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    172 Lamb, Andrew. "Pont des soupirs, Le", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, 2001 (subscription required) (Le Pont de soupirs); and Gammond, pp...
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    five of his operettas (Orphée aux enfers, Le pont des soupirs, Geneviève de Brabant, Le roman comique [fr] and Le voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and...
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    Imaginary Invalid, The Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire, [lə malad imaʒinɛːʁ]) is a three-act comédie-ballet by...
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  • words by Don White, recorded in London in 1977 by Opera Rara Le carnaval des revues and Les hannetons include pre-existing scores but were created under...
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  • Nuit plus douce que le jour ! Ô belle nuit d'amour ! Le temps fuit et sans retour Emporte nos tendresses; Loin de cet heureux séjour Le temps fuit sans retour ...
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    225 "Courrier des Spectacles", Le Gaulois: littéraire et politique, 10 May 1912, p. 1 (in French) "Orphée aux enfers au Théâtre Mogador", Le Figaro, 22 December...
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    Antonia act of Les Contes d'Hoffmann originated as a Bohémiana in Le papillon. The Valse des rayons also became an Apache Dance at the Moulin Rouge in Paris...
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    sung by a mezzo-soprano Offenbach's Le pont des soupirs: The page "Amoroso" is sung by a mezzo-soprano Offenbach's Les bavards: The young poet "Roland" is...
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    included also the third version of Geneviève de Brabant, Les hannetons, La boulangère a des écus, La créole and a waltz for Tarte à la crême. It premiered...
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    Works, vol. 5, Boston, J. B. Millet Company, 1900, p. 114. "Courrier des théâtres", Le Figaro, 17 December 1871 Philippe Luez. Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880) :...
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  • 1874 Geneviève de Brabant, 1859, revised 1867 Le pont des soupirs 1861 M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . ., 1861 La belle Hélène 1865 Barbe-bleue,...
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    the work as "in the rustic vein of Le violoneux and Le mariage aux lanternes". The premiere was at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens (Salle Lacaze) Paris...
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    with Paris, which set off the Trojan War. The premiere was at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris, on 17 December 1864. The work ran well, and productions...
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    Offenbach references do not mention any such influence. Les brigands was first performed at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris on 10 December 1869; this version...
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    1860s to her death. She created roles in Offenbachs’s Le pont des soupirs (Amoroso, 1861), Les bavards (Béatrix, 1862), and Il signor Fagotto (Fabricio...
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  • Brésilien (from: La vie parisienne) 13. Valse (from: Les contes d'Hoffmann) 14. Duel (from: Le voyage dans la lune) 15. Valse (from: La Périchole) 16...
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    Les Bouffes-Parisiens in Le carnaval des revues (1860), Catarina in Le pont des soupirs (1861), and Ernestina in M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le ....
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    mistress. Love eventually triumphs. The story is based loosely on the play Le carrosse du Saint-Sacrement by Prosper Mérimée (1828), and the title character...
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    located in Soupir: two for France, and one each for Germany, the UK, and Italy. Communes of the Aisne department "Répertoire national des élus: les maires"...
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    La course en traîneau Harmonies des bois, Op. 76: Le soir, élégie; La chanson de Berthe; Les larmes de Jacqueline Les Chants du crépuscule (1846) (Éd...
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    original fourth act) on 25 September 1873, at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris. The Théâtre des Variétés revived it in 1875 with Dupuis, Grenier, Cooper...
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    (1867), Baptiste in Le pont des soupirs (1868) and Pietro in Les Brigands (1869). Shortly after appearing in the premiere of Les cent vierges by Charles...
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    antimilitarism, after the French defeat. The opera was first performed at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris on 12 April 1867 and starred Hortense Schneider as the...
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