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    Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne. Robert le diable is regarded as one of the first grand operas at the Paris Opéra. It has only a superficial connection...
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    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 from...
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    Ballet of the Nuns (category Ballets premiered at the Paris Opera Ballet)
    Act 3 of Giacomo Meyerbeer's grand opera, Robert le diable. It was first performed in November 1831 at the Paris Opéra. The choreography (now lost) was...
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    Giacomo Meyerbeer (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera 'decisive character'. Meyerbeer's grand opera style was achieved by...
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    equivalent grand opéra, pronounced [ɡʁɑ̃t‿ɔpeʁa]) to certain productions of the Paris Opéra from the late 1820s to around 1860; 'grand opéra' has sometimes...
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    Le diable dans le beffroi (The Devil in the Belfry) is an unfinished comic opera in one act by Claude Debussy to his own libretto, based on Edgar Allan...
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    learnt his trade composing Italian opera before arriving in Paris. His first work for the Opéra, Robert le diable (1831), was a sensation; audiences particularly...
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    creation. Meyerbeer prepared carefully for this opera after the sensational success of Robert le diable, recognising the need to continue to present lavish...
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  • Paris. Marcel Lattès: Le Diable à Paris, David Plantier [de; fr], Les Plaisirs du Parnasse, 2021 LBM033 B Records "Lattès, Le Diable à Paris – 6 juin 2021"...
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    for many literary and dramatic works, most notably the Meyerbeer opera Robert le diable. The 19th-century Italian writer Arturo Graf gives this version...
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    spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright. Lesage is best known for his comic novel The Devil upon Two Sticks (1707, Le Diable boiteux),...
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    "L'œuvre à l'affiche". In: L'Avant-scène opéra [fr] 161 – Panurge ~ Le Cid. Paris 1994, pp. 130–133. Opéra de Paris website Archived 2014-12-05 at the...
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    Amina Edris (category 21st-century New Zealand women opera singers)
    with a role debut as Alice (Robert le diable) at Opéra national de Bordeaux followed by her house and role debut at the Opéra du Rhin as Micaëla (Carmen)...
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    The Black Domino, directed by Victor Janson (Germany, 1929, based on the opera Le Domino noir) Devil-May-Care, directed by Sidney Franklin (1929, based on...
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    beginning of the grand-opéra was the German Giacomo Meyerbeer. He settled in Paris in 1831, when he had his first success with Robert le diable, set in medieval...
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    Les bardes, with great success at the Opéra and with the Emperor, who made the composer of his favorite opera a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. Le Sueur...
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    role as Corporal Louis LeBeau on the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971). He also had recurring roles on the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1972–1987)...
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    Daniel Auber (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    half of them opéras comiques, and half more serious works for the Opéra: Le Dieu et la bayadère (1830), Le Philtre (1831), Le Serment ou les Faux monnayeurs...
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    Cornélie Falcon (category 19th-century French women opera singers)
    made her debut at the age of 18 at the Opéra as Alice in the 41st performance of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable (20 July 1832). The cast included Nourrit...
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    play with songs, opera has come to include numerous genres, including some that include spoken dialogue such as Singspiel and Opéra comique. In traditional...
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    stage works performed. The capital's two main state-funded opera houses—the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique—followed conservative repertoires that restricted...
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    The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper [diː dʁaɪˈɡʁɔʃn̩ˌʔoːpɐ]) is a German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth...
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    The Paris Opera (French: Opéra de Paris, IPA: [opeʁa də paʁi] ) is the primary opera and ballet company of France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV...
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    Her debut at the Paris Opéra was again as Alice in Robert le Diable on 31 juillet 1893, going on to sing in Lohengrin, Les Huguenots, la Walkyrie, Djelma...
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    La dame blanche (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    fantastic into opera and is a model for works such as Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable (1831) and Charles Gounod's Faust (1859). The opera's musical style...
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    Eugène Scribe (category French opera librettists)
    librettos for the Opéra or the Opéra-comique, Larousse listed as among the most notable: Les Diamants de la couronne, La Part du diable and Haydée (with...
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    Nicolas Levasseur (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    such as; Le comte Ory, Guillaume Tell, Robert le diable, La juive, Les Huguenots, La favorite, Dom Sebastien, Le prophète, etc. Levasseur was considered...
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    Le prophète (The Prophet) is a grand opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, which was premiered in Paris on 16 April 1849. The French-language libretto...
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    known as the Phantom of the Opera, commonly referred to as the Phantom) is the title character from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, best...
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    coach) at the Opéra, working on major works in the grand opéra genre such as Le Siège de Corinthe, Guillaume Tell, and Robert le diable. His position...
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