In which opera by Offenbach does a poet relate three stories about the loves of his life?
"act, with vocal lines by Offenbach and instrumental by Guiraud. The Antonia act and epilogue are in the BnF, while the Giulietta act is in the Offenbach family archives. The opera has been frequently recorded. Well-regarded recordings have included: The Tales of Hoffmann The Tales of Hoffmann (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work, as he died a year before the premiere. Barbier and Michel Carré had previously written a"
"Die Rheinnixen Die Rheinnixen (French: ""Les fées du Rhin""; English ""The Rhine Nixies"") is a romantic opera in four acts by Jacques Offenbach. The original libretto by Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter was translated into German by Alfred von Wolzogen. The Elves’ Song from ""Die Rheinnixen"" was later used in ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", where it became the ""Barcarolle"" (""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour""), in the 'Giulietta' act; Conrad's drinking song was also re-used in the same act. The first performance was given in a truncated form (owing to the illness of the tenor Alois Ander) on 4 February 1864 at the Hoftheater"
"Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour ""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"" (often referred to as the ""Barcarolle"") is a piece from ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", Jacques Offenbach's final opera. A duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano, it is considered the most famous barcarolle ever written and described in the ""Grove Book of Operas"" as ""one of the world's most popular melodies."" The text, concerning the beauty of the night and of love, is by Jules Barbier. The piece opens the opera's third act, set in Venice. It is sung by the characters Giulietta – the protagonist Hoffmann's love, a Venetian courtesan –"
"last act. The work concludes with a combination of the barcarolle and the Vaterlandslied. Its text is: Offenbach: ""Les fées du Rhin "" (in German) - Orchestre National de Montpellier Die Rheinnixen Die Rheinnixen (French: ""Les fées du Rhin""; English ""The Rhine Nixies"") is a romantic opera in four acts by Jacques Offenbach. The original libretto by Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter was translated into German by Alfred von Wolzogen. The Elves’ Song from ""Die Rheinnixen"" was later used in ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", where it became the ""Barcarolle"" (""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour""), in the 'Giulietta' act; Conrad's drinking song was also"
"the Barcarolle in ""The Tales of Hoffmann"". After December 1864, Offenbach wrote less frequently for the Bouffes-Parisiens, and many of his new works premiered at larger theatres. Between 1864 and 1868, Offenbach wrote four of the operettas for which he is chiefly remembered: ""La belle Hélène"" (1864), ""La Vie parisienne"" (1866), ""La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein"" (1867) and ""La Périchole"" (1868). Halévy was joined as librettist for all of them by Henri Meilhac. Offenbach, who called them ""Meil"" and ""Hal"", said of this trinity: ""Je suis sans doute le Père, mais chacun des deux est mon Fils et plein d'Esprit,"" a"
"Barbe-bleue (opera) Barbe-bleue (, ""Bluebeard"") is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in three acts (four scenes) by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy based on Charles Perrault's 1697 story. The work was composed while Offenbach was travelling during 1865, in Vienna, Brussels and Cologne, conducting his works in those cities. Other distractions during the period were the marriage on 9 August in Étretat of his eldest daughter Berthe to Charles Comte (for which he composed a mass) and problems with gout (which he encouraged the press to report). It was first performed at the"
"from one of Hoffmann's books (and according to Charles Rosen's ""The Romantic Generation"", is possibly also inspired by ""The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr"", in which Kreisler appears). Jacques Offenbach's masterwork, the opera ""Les contes d'Hoffmann"" (""The Tales of Hoffmann"", 1881), is based on the stories, principally ""Der Sandmann"" (""The Sandman"", 1816), ""Rat Krespel"" (""Councillor Krespel"", 1818), and ""Das verlorene Spiegelbild"" (""The Lost Reflection"") from ""Die Abenteuer der Silvester-Nacht"" (""The Adventures of New Year's Eve"", 1814). ""Klein Zaches genannt Zinnober"" (""Little Zaches called Cinnabar"", 1819) inspired an aria as well as the operetta ""Le Roi Carotte"", 1872). Pyotr Ilyich"
"pieces"": the multiple serenade beneath Catarina's balcony, the tale of the loss of the Venetian fleet, the parody of an operatic mad scene for Catarina, and a farcical ""quatuor des poignards"". Offenbach would return to Venice in the Giulietta act of his final work ""Les Contes d'Hoffmann"". ""Le pont des soupirs"" was first performed in a two-act version at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris on 23 March 1861. A four-act version was subsequently given at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris on 8 May 1868. From June 1861 Offenbach had taken his production of the opera to the Theater am"
"La Vie parisienne (operetta) La vie parisienne (, Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contemporary Parisian life, unlike his earlier period pieces and mythological subjects. It became one of Offenbach's most popular operettas. In 1864 the Théâtre du Palais-Royal presented a comedy by Meilhac and Halévy entitled ""Le Photographe"" (""The Photographer""), which featured a character called Raoul Gardefeu, the lover of Métella, trying to seduce a baroness. Two years earlier, a comedy by the same authors"
"this that he makes to leave home. Catherine realizes that he must love her and embraces him. Initially furious, Rabastens relents, gives his blessing to Gustave's marriage, and increases his allowance. Pomme d'api Pomme d'api is a one-act opérette of 1873 by Jacques Offenbach with a French libretto by Ludovic Halévy and William Busnach. Offenbach had heard Louise Théo singing in café-concert in Paris and although her voice was unremarkable, her stage presence made him decide to centre his next stage work around her. Run-throughs of the opera took place during the summer of 1873 at the 'Villa Orphée' home"
"popular. In 1858, Offenbach produced his first full-length operetta, ""Orphée aux enfers"" (""Orpheus in the Underworld""), which was exceptionally well received and has remained one of his most played works. During the 1860s, he produced at least 18 full-length operettas, as well as more one-act pieces. His works from this period included ""La belle Hélène"" (1864), ""La Vie parisienne"" (1866), ""La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein"" (1867) and ""La Périchole"" (1868). The risqué humour (often about sexual intrigue) and mostly gentle satiric barbs in these pieces, together with Offenbach's facility for melody, made them internationally known, and translated versions were successful in"
"The Tales of Hoffmann The Tales of Hoffmann (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work, as he died a year before the premiere. Barbier and Michel Carré had previously written a play, , which was produced at the Odéon Theatre in Paris in 1851, and which Offenbach had seen. After returning from America in 1876 he learned that Barbier had adapted the play and it was being set to music"
"Hoffmann""); ""Voici le sabre de mon père"" and ""Ah! Que j'aime les militaires"" (""La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein""); and ""Tu n'es pas beau"" in ""La Périchole"", which Lamb notes was Offenbach's last major song for Hortense Schneider. By his own reckoning, Offenbach composed more than 100 operas. Both the number and the noun are open to question: some works were so extensively revised that he evidently counted the revised versions as new, and commentators generally refer to all but a few of his stage works as operettas, rather than operas. Offenbach reserved the term ""opérette"" (English: operetta) or ""opérette bouffe"""
"the Opéra-Comique, the three-act ""Barkouf"". It was not a success; its plot revolved around a dog, and Offenbach attempted canine imitations in his music. Neither the public nor the critics were impressed, and the piece survived for only seven performances. Apart from that setback, Offenbach flourished in the 1860s, with successes greatly outnumbering failures. In 1861 he led the company in a summer season in Vienna. Encountering packed houses and enthusiastic reviews, Offenbach found Vienna much to his liking. He even reverted, for a single evening, to his old role as a cello virtuoso at a command performance before Emperor"
"Tannhäuser (opera) Tannhäuser (; full title Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, ""Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg"") is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on two German legends: Tannhäuser, the legendary medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest. The story centers on the struggle between sacred and profane love, and redemption through love, a theme running through much of Wagner's mature work. Wagner made a number of revisions of the opera throughout his life and was still unsatisfied with its format when he died. The"
"and Lindorf leave together. The aria """" (Song of little Zaches) in the prologue is based on the short story """" (""Little Zaches, called cinnabar""), 1819. The barcarolle, ""Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour"" in the Venetian act, is the opera's most famous number, but was borrowed by Offenbach from his earlier opera ""Rheinnixen"" (French: ""Les fées du Rhin""). Offenbach did not live to see his opera performed. He died on 5 October 1880, four months before its premiere, but after completing the piano score and orchestrating the prologue and first act. As a result, different editions of the opera soon"
"ring and claims to be his wife. With a reprise of the first act finale all ends happily. La jolie parfumeuse La jolie parfumeuse is an opéra comique in three acts of 1873 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Hector Crémieux and Ernest Blum. The opera was premiered at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris on 29 November 1873, where it ran for 200 performances, marking Offenbach’s first major success after the fall of the Empire. The piece, which owes something to the 1850 opéra comique ""Les Porcherons"" by Sauvage and Grisar, enjoys a ""farcical libretto"
"to Giletti and Marietta (who use it to buy up the inn), and dispatches the count to Naples with the same, re-sealed, letter. Madame l'archiduc Madame l’archiduc is an opéra bouffe, or operetta in three acts, by Jacques Offenbach, with a French libretto by Albert Millaud first performed at the Bouffes-Parisiens (Salle Choiseul) in Paris in 1874. After a slow start ""Madame l’Archiduc"" had an opening run of 100 performances. It was seen in Vienna in 1875 and London in 1876. Highlights of the score include the quartet in cod-English for the count, countess and young couple in Act 1,"
"an opéra comique for Jacques Offenbach, and in 1855, again for Offenbach, ""Les Deux Aveugles"", a musical buffoonery. In 1866, his comedy ""Les Deux Sourds"" was created at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. During the Franco-Prussian War, while he volunteered for the , he had an opéra bouffe, ""Le Canard à trois becs"", presented with great success at the Folies-Dramatiques. His judicial chronicles of the Criminal Court, written with verve for ""La Gazette des tribunaux"", ""Le Charivari"", etc., were collected in 1881 under the title ""Les Tribunaux comiques"". His son Courteline sometimes drew inspiration from these for some of"
"Orpheus (Telemann) Orpheus (full title: Die wunderbare Beständigkeit der Liebe oder Orpheus, ""The Wonderful Constancy of Love, or Orpheus"") is an opera in three acts by the German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. It was first performed in a concert version at the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg on 9 March 1726. The anonymous libretto is based on ""Orphée"" by Michel du Boulay, originally set by the French composer Louis Lully. Most of the work is in German but it also contains passages in French and Italian drawn from famous operas by Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully. The music to these words"
"is incensed when he realizes that Count Liebenau and the journeyman Konrad are one and the same person and he has been outsmarted, but he finally blesses the couple and is satisfied with the turn of events. Der Waffenschmied Der Waffenschmied (The Armourer) is an opera (Singspiel) in three acts by Albert Lortzing. The German-language libretto was by the composer after Friedrich Wilheim von Ziegler's ""Liebhaber und Nebenbuhler in einer Person"" (Lover and Rival in One Person). This is often considered his third most popular work. His works are considered to be part of the Biedermeier period. It premiered in"
"Jupiter, seeing himself caught, would fain be angry, but their love conquers his wrath. He does not recall his gift, but giving them his blessing, promises never more to cross their happiness. Philémon et Baucis Philémon et Baucis (""Philemon and Baucis"") is an opera in three acts by Charles Gounod with a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The opera is based on the tale of Baucis and Philemon as told by La Fontaine (derived in turn from Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"" Book VIII). The piece was intended to capitalise on the vogue for mythological comedy started by Offenbach's ""Orpheus in"
"Pomme d'api Pomme d'api is a one-act opérette of 1873 by Jacques Offenbach with a French libretto by Ludovic Halévy and William Busnach. Offenbach had heard Louise Théo singing in café-concert in Paris and although her voice was unremarkable, her stage presence made him decide to centre his next stage work around her. Run-throughs of the opera took place during the summer of 1873 at the 'Villa Orphée' home in Étretat which Offenbach had built and furnished with the royalties from ""Orphée aux Enfers"". Théo's success in ""Pomme d'api"" stimulated Offenbach to create a full-length work around her for the"
"Jacques Offenbach's musical work of secondary motifs and concentrated the action on Hoffmann and his three loves, with the production merely featuring three lead characters, and the ballet and opera ensembles. The critics, however, panned ""The Tales of Hoffmann"" and required that Laterna magika return to a vaudeville type of programme. At Expo 67 in Montreal, the company presented a shorter programme performed up to twelve times a day which later on was staged in Prague under the title ""Revue from the Box."" A turning point in the dramaturgy of Laterna magika came in 1973, when the architect and set"
"an illegitimate daughter of his sister and therefore he was only her uncle. Now that a marriage between Lischen and Fritzchen is possible, in joy the couple join arms and continue their way home. Lischen et Fritzchen Lischen et Fritzchen is a one-act operetta (« conversation alsacienne » - Alsatian conversation) with music by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by ‘P Dubois’ (Paul Boisselot), first performed in 1863. The premiere was on 21 July 1863 at the Kursaal, Bad Ems, during a successful summer season for the composer. The Paris premiere followed at the newly refurbished Théâtre des Bouffes"
"another work that leaned more to romantic comic opera than to opéra bouffe. It was well received, but has not subsequently been revived as often as Offenbach's best-known operettas. Offenbach returned hurriedly from Ems and Wiesbaden before the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. He then went to his home in Étretat and arranged for his family to move to the safety of San Sebastián in northern Spain, joining them shortly afterwards. Having risen to fame under Napoleon III, satirised him, and been rewarded by him, Offenbach was universally associated with the old régime: he was known as ""the"
"""""opéra bouffon"""", ""Orphée aux enfers"", in 1858, and he composed over 20 more of them during the rest of his career. Lamb, following the precedent of Henseler's 1930 study of the composer, divides the one-act pieces into five categories: ""(i) country idylls; (ii) urban operettas; (iii) military operettas; (iv) farces; and (v) burlesques or parodies."" Offenbach enjoyed his greatest success in the 1860s. His most popular operettas from the decade have remained among his best known. The first ideas for plots usually came from Offenbach, with his librettists working on lines agreed with him. Lamb writes, ""In this respect Offenbach"
"the pet cat with which he is besotted. Its happy ending is reversed in Henri Sauguet's popular ballet ""La Chatte"" (1927). Here the goddess Aphrodite turns the woman back into a cat again after she leaves her lover to chase a mouse and he dies of disappointment. There had in fact been a much earlier ballet of ""La chatte metamorphosée en femme"", with music by Alexandre Montfort and choreography by Jean Coralli. This was first performed in 1837 with the Austrian dancer Fanny Elssler in the lead role. Not only did the work inspire Offenbach to write his opera but"
"square that occupy Act III are often deleted in modern danced versions. Some influence on this story comes from travelling shows of the late 18th and early 19th centuries starring mechanical automata. This field of entertainment has been under-documented, but a recent survey of the field is contained in ""The Mechanical Turk"" by Tom Standage (2002). A variation of the ""Coppélia"" story is contained in Jacques Offenbach's opera, ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", a fictional work about the same Hoffmann who wrote the story that inspired ""Coppélia"". The opera consists of a prologue, three fantastic tales in which Hoffmann is a"
"Undine (Hoffmann) Undine is an opera, with spoken dialogue, in three acts by the German composer and author E.T.A. Hoffmann. The libretto, by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, is based on his own story ""Undine"". It received its premiere at the Königliches Schauspielhaus, Berlin on 3 August, 1816. ""Undine"" was Hoffmann's greatest operatic success and a major influence on the development of German Romantic opera. Carl Maria von Weber's enthusiastic review of the opera admired it as 'an art work complete in itself, in which partial contributions of the related and collaborating arts blend together, disappear, and, in disappearing, somehow"
"The Love for Three Oranges The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33, also known by its French language title (, ""Lyubov' k tryom apel'sinam""), is a satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev. Its French libretto was based on the Italian play ""L'amore delle tre melarance"" by Carlo Gozzi. The opera premiered at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, on 30 December 1921. The opera was the result of a commission during Prokofiev's successful first visit to the USA in 1918. After successful concerts in Chicago (including his First Symphony), he was approached by the director of the Chicago Opera Association, Cleofonte"
"Fantasio (opera) Fantasio is an 1872 opéra comique in 3 acts, 4 tableaux with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto by Paul de Musset was closely based on the 1834 play of the same name by his brother Alfred de Musset. The opera found little success in Offenbach's lifetime, was revived in the 1930s and performed in a critical edition in the 2000s. The Musset play was published in the Revue des deux Mondes in 1834 and first performed at the Comédie-Française, Paris in 1866 where it was seen 30 times. Two ""new"" works were scheduled for the Salle"
"marry Reinette and tears up the letter. Pierre offers to repair the violin, and Matthieu says he will remain a poor fiddler. Le violoneux Le violoneux is a one-act operetta (« légende bretonne » - Breton legend) by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Eugène Mestépès and Émile Chevalet, first performed in 1855. The triumphant premiere was at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in the Champs-Elysées, Paris, on 31 August 1855, making a star of Schneider in her first role for Offenbach, to whom she had been introduced by Berthelier (with whom she was having an affair). ""Le violoneux"""