2017-07-29T18:00:40+03:00[Europe/Moscow] en true Fra Diavolo (opera), Les mamelles de Tirésias, Cendrillon, Carmen, Pelléas et Mélisande (opera), The Tales of Hoffmann, La damnation de Faust, Le postillon de Lonjumeau, Djamileh, La fille du régiment, Manon, Lakmé, La voix humaine, Le congrès des rois, La dame blanche, Le domino noir, Fantasio (Offenbach), Rita (opera), L'étoile du nord, Le roi d'Ys, Ariane et Barbe-bleue, Robinson Crusoé, Mignon, Don César de Bazan flashcards
Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique

Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique

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  • Fra Diavolo (opera)
    The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Ventadour in Paris on 28 January 1830 and an Italian version was prepared by Auber and Scribe for performance in London in 1857.
  • Les mamelles de Tirésias
    Les mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) is an opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc, in a prologue and two acts based on the play of the same title by Guillaume Apollinaire.
  • Cendrillon
    Cendrillon (Cinderella) is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn based on Perrault's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale.
  • Carmen
    Carmen (French pronunciation: ​[kaʁmɛn]; Spanish: [ˈkarmen]) is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet.
  • Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
    Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy.
  • The Tales of Hoffmann
    The Tales of Hoffmann (French: Les contes d'Hoffmann) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach.
  • La damnation de Faust
    La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust), Op.
  • Le postillon de Lonjumeau
    The opera has become the most successful of Adam's works, and the one by which (apart from his ballet Giselle and his Christmas carol Cantique de Noël) he is best known outside his native France.
  • Djamileh
    Djamileh is an opéra comique in one act by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on an oriental tale, Namouna, by Alfred de Musset.
  • La fille du régiment
    La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard.
  • Manon
    Prior to Massenet's work, Halévy (Manon Lescaut, ballet, 1830) and Auber (Manon Lescaut, opéra comique, 1856) had used the subject for musical stage works.
  • Lakmé
    Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.
  • La voix humaine
    La voix humaine (English: The Human Voice) is a forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958.
  • Le congrès des rois
    Le congrès des rois (The Congress of the Kings) was a 3-act French Revolutionary opera of the genre comédie mêlée d'ariettes with a libretto by De Maillot, a stage name used by Antoine-François Ève early in his career, and music by a collaborative of twelve composers (see below).
  • La dame blanche
    La dame blanche (The White Lady) is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu.
  • Le domino noir
    In 1869, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky provided recitatives to replace the spoken dialogue for a proposed production of Le domino noir by an Italian opera company visiting Russia.
  • Fantasio (Offenbach)
    Fantasio is an 1872 opéra comique in 3 acts, 4 tableaux with music by Jacques Offenbach.
  • Rita (opera)
    In 1841, while Donizetti was in Paris waiting for the libretto to be completed for a commission by La Scala, he had a chance encounter with Gustave Vaëz, who had co-written the libretti for two of his earlier operas, Lucie de Lammermoor (the French version of Lucia di Lammermoor) and La favorite.
  • L'étoile du nord
    L'étoile du nord (The North Star) is an opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer.
  • Le roi d'Ys
    Le roi d'Ys (The King of Ys) is an opera in three acts and five tableaux by the French composer Édouard Lalo, to a libretto by Édouard Blau, based on the old Breton legend of the drowned city of Ys.
  • Ariane et Barbe-bleue
    Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Ariadne and Bluebeard) is an opera in three acts by Paul Dukas.
  • Robinson Crusoé
    Robinson Crusoé is an opéra comique, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach.
  • Mignon
    Mignon is an opéra comique (or opera in its second version) in three acts by Ambroise Thomas.
  • Don César de Bazan
    It was the first full-length opera by Massenet to be produced, the one-act La grand'tante having been mounted five years earlier by the same company.