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    La permission de dix heures is an opéra comique in one act, composed in 1867 by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto, by Mélesville and Pierre Carmouche...
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    The Marriage of Figaro (French: La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro ("The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro")) is a comedy in five acts, written...
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    Léon Carvalho: "Hâtez-vous de monter mon opéra. Il ne me reste plus longtemps à vivre et mon seul désir est d'assister à la première." ("Hurry up and stage...
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  • composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji to write his Passeggiata veneziana sopra la Barcarola di Offenbach (1955–56). Moritz Moszkowski also wrote a virtuoso...
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    The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution (French: Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile) is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original...
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    expanded in a four-act "opéra féerie" version, presented at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris, on 7 February 1874. The opera is a lampoon of the ancient...
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    Parthoenis and Leoena" – Chorus and Orestes Air de Pâris "Au mont Ida" – Air: "Mount Ida" – Paris Marche des Rois de la Grèce – March of the Kings of Greece Chœur...
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    at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris, on the same bill as La permission de dix heures. On 20 April 1874 Pomme d'api was seen at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens...
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    Hypochondriac, or The Would-Be Invalid (French title Le Malade imaginaire, [ malad imaʒinɛːʁ]) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière...
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    Jacques Offenbach (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Jean qui rit (1864), Coscoletto, ou Le lazzarone (1865), and La permission de dix heures (1867). Most of them were played at the Bouffes-Parisiens in...
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