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Boule-de-Neige
''Boule-de-Neige'' is an opéra bouffe in three acts premiered in 1871 with music composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu, adapted from that by Eugène Scribe and Henry Boisseaux for Offenbach's earlier ''Barkouf'' (1860). The opera's title refers to a bear that becomes a ruler. Background After the upheaval of the Franco-Prussian War and personal attacks on him, Offenbach attempted to re-launch his career with ''Le roi Carotte'' in collaboration with Victorien Sardou;Alexander Faris, Faris, Alexander. ''Jacques Offenbach''. London & Boston: Faber and Faber, 1980, p. 77–78. at the same time he got Nuitter and Tréfeu to write a new libretto with which he could re-use music from ''Barkouf''., which had sunk without trace at the Opéra-Comique in 1860 after seven performances. In a letter to the press, Nuitter pointed out that he and Tréfeu originally had an idea for an opera subject after reading the August 1871 edition of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félicia Thierret
Félicie Marie, called Félicia Thierret, around 1814 – 1 May 1873 was a French comedian. Life Born in Paris, after attending the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, Thierret made her debut at the Comédie-Française as Suzanne in '' Le Mariage de Figaro'' by Beaumarchais.. She was accepted as a boarder in 1832 but soon left the theatre to alternate between Parisian stages and tours in the provinces. The list of her engagements in Paris is impressive : Comédie-Française (in 1832 and 1841), Théâtre de l'Odéon (in 1839 and 1857), Théâtre du Palais-Royal (in 1848 and 1858), Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens (in 1867) and Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs (in 1873). She could have pursued the classical repertoire, but this probably did not suit her whimsical temperament. When she played ''Tartuffe'' at the Odéon in particular (as Dorine). As she grew older, she became overweight, which prompted her to turn – successfully – to the role of the old women. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Désiré (baritone)
Amable Courtecuisse (; 29 December 1823 – 7 September 1873), whose stage name was Désiré (), was a French baritone, who is particularly remembered for creating many comic roles in the works of the French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach.Karl-Josef Kutsch, Kutsch, K. J.; Leo Riemens, Riemens, Leo. ''Großes Sängerlexikon'' (fourth edition, in German), p. 1130. K. G. Saur, Munich, 2003. .Gänzl K. ''The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre.'' Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. . Life and career He was born in Lille or a nearby village of it, and studied the bassoon, singing, and declamation at the Lille Conservatory. His first appearances were at small theatres in Belgium and northern France beginning in 1845. In 1847, he arrived at the Théâtre Montmartre in Paris where he met Hervé (composer), Hervé. He asked Hervé to provide him with a musical sketch (drawn from Cervantes' novel ''Don Quixote''), in which the tall and thin Hervé as the Don was pitted against the short and pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Berthelier
Jean-François-Philibert Berthelier (; 14 December 1830 – 29 September 1888) was a French actor and singer, who performed many light tenor roles in opéra-comique and opéra-bouffe.O’Connor P. 'Jean-François Berthelier' In : ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. Early career Berthelier was born in Panissières, the son of a notary. At eleven he became an orphan and moved in with a foster family. He initially worked as an office clerk in a bookstore in Lyon, where on the side he appeared on stage as an extra at the Théâtre des Célestins. His fine voice was noticed, and he made his operatic debut as Fernand in ''La favorite'' at a small provincial theatre in Poitiers in 1849.Yon & Fraison 1996, p. 59. When that theatre closed, he moved to Paris, but after he was refused entry to the Paris Conservatoire, Conservatoire de Musique, he turned to singing in cafés-concerts, not without success. He also composed some songs under the pseudonym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Tréfeu
Étienne Victor Tréfeu (de Tréval) (born Saint-Lô, Manche, September 25, 1821 – died Paris, June, 1903), was a French librettist, song writer and theatre manager. He is best known for his work with Jacques Offenbach. He originally came to prominence as a writer of popular songs. In 1873 he became the administrator of the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris. Works *1855: ''Le Rêve d'une nuit d'été'', saynète in 1 act by Jacques Offenbach *1857: ''Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins'', opérette bouffe en 1 act by Jacques Offenbach, libretto with Adolphe Jaime fils *1859: ''Geneviève de Brabant'', opéra bouffon in 2 acts by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Étienne Tréfeu and Adolphe Jaime fils *1863: ''Il Signor Fagotto'', one-act opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu *1864: ''Le soldat magicien'', one-act opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu *1864: ''Jeanne qui pleure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Figaro
() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It was named after Figaro, a character in several plays by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799): ''Le Barbier de Séville'', ''The Guilty Mother, La Mère coupable'', and the eponym, eponymous ''The Marriage of Figaro (play), Le Mariage de Figaro''. One of his lines became the paper's motto: "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise". The oldest national newspaper in France, is considered a French newspaper of record, along with and ''Libération''. Since 2004, the newspaper has been owned by Dassault Group. Its editorial director has been Alexis Brézet since 2012. ''Le Figaro'' is the second-largest national newspaper in France, after ''Le Monde''. It has a Centre-right politics, centre-right editorial stance and is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Other Groupe Figaro publications include ''Le Figaro Magazine'', ''TV Magazine'' and ''Eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montrouge (actor)
Montrouge (15 March 1825 – 22 December 1903), born Louis (Émile) Hesnard, was a comic actor in French musical theatre in the second half of the nineteenth century, as well as a theatre manager in Paris. Life and career He studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris but then became involved in amateur theatre work.Martin J., ''Nos artistes des théâtres et concerts'' (Paris: Paul Ollendorff, 1895. Montrouge's career began in earnest in 1855 at the Théâtre Batignolles, where he also acted as manager.Gänzl K.: "Marguerite Macé-Montrouge", in: ''The Encyclopaedia of the Musical Theatre'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. In addition he variously managed the Théâtre Folies-Marigny from 1864 to 1869 (where he met his wife, and on leaving received a benefit of 500,000 francs), the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Athénée-Comique. He performed together with his wife in Cairo from 1873 to 1875. At the Théâtre des Délassements-Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, Application software, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a Information wants to be free, free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge". The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous Internet Archive#Book collections, book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Dame Blanche
''La dame blanche'' (, ''The White Lady'') is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels ''Guy Mannering'' (1815), ''The Monastery'' (1820), and '' The Abbot'' (1820). Elizabeth Forbes: "La dame blanche", ''Grove Music Online'' ed. L. Macy (Accessed February 19, 2009)(subscription access) The opera has typical elements of the Romantic in its Gothic mode, including an exotic Scottish locale, a lost heir, a mysterious castle, a hidden fortune, and a ghost, in this case benevolent. The work was one of the first attempts to introduce the 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 also heavily influenced later operas like ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', ''I puritani'' and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Yon
Jean-Claude Yon, born Paris, 22 February 1966 is a French academic and historian. He has specialised in the world of 19th century theatre and opera, notably the work of Scribe and Offenbach. He is professor at the Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Career Yon entered the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1987, obtaining a master's degree in contemporary history with his study ''Les notaires parisiens sous le Second Empire'' (Parisian notaries during the Second Empire) which went on to win the Prix Favard de Langlade offered by the Institut international d’histoire du notariat in 1993. His doctoral thesis examined ''Eugène Scribe, la fortune et la liberté'' (Eugène Scribe, destiny and freedom) and was defended in January 1994 at the université Panthéon-Sorbonne. Along with Jean-Christophe Keck, Robert Pourvoyer, Peter Hawig and Alain Fraison he was involved in the creation of the Offenbach Edition Keck, a new Offenbach critical editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salle Favart
The Salle Favart (), officially the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique (), is a Paris opera house and theatre, the current home of the Opéra-Comique. It was built from 1893 to 1898 in a neo-Baroque style to the designs of the French architect Louis Bernier and is located on the Place Boïeldieu just south of the Boulevard des Italiens. Background The Salle Favart is the third theatre with this name on this site. The first Salle Favart, built to the designs of Jean-François Heurtier, opened on 28 April 1783. Charles Simon Favart was the company's director at the time. It was destroyed by fire on the night of 14 or 15 January 1838. The second Salle Favart, built to the designs of , opened on 16 May 1840. It was destroyed by fire on 25 May 1887.Wild 1989, pp. 135–138. Competition After long deliberation following the second fire, a decision was finally reached to rebuild on the same constricted site. A competition was held, judged by five winners of the Grand Prix de Rome (inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Christophe Keck
Jean-Christophe Keck is a French musicologist and conductor, born in Briançon, in 1964. He is particularly noted as a specialist in the works of Jacques Offenbach, and is the director of the complete critical edition in progress, named after both, Offenbach Edition Keck (OEK).Keck, Jean-Christophe. Biographical note in CD 442 8964, Association des Concerts Pasdeloup/Universal, 2007. Biography As a child he played tuba in the Briançon town bandUne tranche de Keck? ''Lyre'' #02 Lettre d'information des Musiciens du Louvre, Grenoble, March–April–May 2006, p6-7. and after early studies at the école de musique de Briançon he attended for two years the Conservatoire de Marseille before entering the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris. There he followed courses in conducting with Jean-Sébastien Bérault, musicology and composition with Pierre Villette, vocal studies (tenor) with Christiane Eda-Pierre, and piano. He was struck early by a passion for the musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
