(Achille) Claude Debussy (French: [aʃil klod dəbysi]; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist...
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Opera cake (French: Gâteau opéra) is a French cake. It is made with layers of almond sponge cake (known as Joconde in French) soaked in coffee syrup, layered...
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Claude Got (22 December 1906 – 9 June 1940) was a French bass opera singer whose promising career at major opera houses, including the Paris Opera and...
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ISBN 978-2-86849-255-5 Pitou, Spire (1985). The Paris Opéra. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Vapereau, Gustave, « Claude-Henri de Fusée de Voisenon », in 'Dictionnaire...
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Claude Rains, as well as being composed by Edward Ward. The first adaptation of the source material to be filmed in Technicolor, Phantom of the Opera...
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Palais Garnier, one of the theatres of the Paris Opéra. The musicians and others associated with the Opéra-Comique have made important contributions to operatic...
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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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Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's...
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1910) Les lucioles – ballet by Mme. Mariquita – (Opéra-Comique, Paris; 28 December 1910) Pantagruel – opera in 5 acts – libretto by Alfred Jarry and Eugène...
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granted on 18 August 1731 to Claude Lecomte, who managed the Opera with François Le Bœuf. But it was soon revealed that Claude Lecomte's son, who had been...
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