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    La Princesse de Trébizonde is an opéra bouffe with music by Jacques Offenbach and text by Étienne Tréfeu and Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. The work was...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    in La Chanson de Fortunio, Berthe in La Diva, a page in La Princesse de Trébizonde. Her first major role was Mistress Johnson in La Romance de la Rose...
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    Bouffes-Parisiens, in the travesti role of prince Raphael in La princesse de Trébizonde, 7 December 1869, then appeared in Les Bavardes. She left the...
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    mes amours, O mes maîtresses' No.21 – Morceau d’ensemble: Voici venir la princesse et son page' No.22 – Finale: 'Coquin, brigand, traître, bandit!' This...
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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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    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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