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Eugène Bercioux
Eugène Bercioux (1822–1898) was a 19th-century French playwright and poet. Works *1847: ''Les Arabesques'', poems, 1847 *1850: ''Nisus et Euryale'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Léon Battu *1852: ''Mam'sell'Rose'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Adrien Decourcelle *1854: ''Après la bataille'', poetry, music by Ernest Boulanger *1855: ''Zamore et Giroflée'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Charles Narrey *1856: ''La bonne d'enfant'', one-act opérette bouffe, music by Jacques Offenbach *1858: ''Maître Baton'', one-act operetta, music by Alfred Dufresne *1860: ''La Main du Seigneur'', cantique, poem, music by Boulanger *1861: ''La Malédiction'', poem, music by Boulanger *1878: ''la Fée Caprice'', opéra comique ''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LiederNet
The LiederNet Archive (formerly The Lied, Art Song, and Choral Texts Archive) is a donation-supported web archive of art song and choral texts founded in 1995 by Emily Ezust, an American/Canadian computer programmer and amateur violinist. The website was hosted by the REC Music Foundation from 1996 to 2015. The LiederNet Archive provides access to both original out-of-copyright song texts and copyright-protected translations submitted by over 500 volunteer translators. The website is indexed by composer, text poet or author, first line, title, or language. The LiederNet Archive is frequently cited as a source in musical studies, where the website's aggregate listings of settings of songs and poems may be more complete or more easily accessible than conventional musicological Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Battu
Léon Battu was a French dramatist, born 1829Walsh T J. ''Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870.'' John Calder (Publishers Ltd), London, 1981, Appendix D, p. 342. in Paris, where he died on 22 November 1857. Life and career The son of Pantaléon Battu (1799–1870), a violinist and assistant conductor at the Opéra de Paris,Fétis F-J. ''Biographie universelle des musiciens.'' Vol I, 55. Paris, 1878. and brother of the soprano Marie Battu (1838-1888) who created Inès in ''L'Africaine'', he wrote many vaudevilles and libretti. In the fields of opéra-comique and opérettes, these were in collaboration with Ludovic Halévy, Michel Carré, Jules Barbier, Jules Moinaux and Lockroy. His composers were Jacques Offenbach ('' Pépito'', '' Le mariage aux lanternes''), Adolphe Adam (''Les Pantins de Violette''), Victor Massé (''La Reine Topaze''), Georges Bizet and Charles Lecocq (''Le Docteur Miracle''). With Halévy he translated Mozart's ''Der Schauspieldir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrien Decourcelle
Adrien Decourcelle (28 October 1821 – 6 August 1892) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright. Pierre-Henri-Adrien Decourcelle wrote about 70 plays between 1845 and 1855, comedies and Comédie en vaudeville written most of the time in collaboration with Théodore Barrière. He was also a successful chansonnier. In 1851 he married Caroline Lambert, a niece of Adolphe d'Ennery. His son was Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926), a playwright, novelist, president of the Société des gens de lettres and commandeur of the Légion d'honneur. Pierre Decourcelle was involved in legal disputes following Ennery's death in 1899. Adrien Decourcelle is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris (7th division). Selected works *1848: ''Un vilain monsieur'', play with Théodore Barrière, Théâtre des Variétés *1850: '' Les Petits Moyens'', play with Eugène Labiche and Gustave Lemoine, Théâtre du Gymnase *1895: ''La Belle Épicière'', operetta with He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Boulanger (composer)
Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger (16 September 1815 – 14 April 1900) was a French composer of comic operas and a conductor. He was more known, however, for being a choral music composer, choral group director, voice teacher, and vocal contest jury member. Biography Boulanger was born into a Parisian musical family. His father, Frédéric Boulanger, who left the family when Ernest was only a small child, was a cellist and professor of singing at the Paris Conservatory, winner of the First Prize in cello at the Conservatory in 1797 and a professor of cello, attached to the Sainte-Chapelle, King's Chapel. His mother, Marie-Julie Halligner, was a mezzo-soprano at the Opéra-Comique, Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris. He was a pupil at the Paris Conservatory where he studied under Jean-François Le Sueur, and Fromental Halévy. He studied piano with the virtuoso pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan; and operatic composition with Daniel Auber and Ferdinand Hérold. At the age of 19, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Narrey
Charles Narrey (1825 in Becques, Nord – 1892 in Paris) was a 19th-century French writer and playwright from an Irish family arrived in France following James II of England. Narrey made his debut in 1847 with both a novel, ''Deux heures de mystères'', and two comedies performed at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, ''Les Notables de l'endroit'' (in 3 acts) and ''En bonne fortune'' (1 act). From 1853 until 1856, he was one of the administrators of this theatre. Narrey wrote a certain number of plays for different theatres, sometimes in collaboration with M. Michel : ''Le Passé et l'avenir'' (Odéon, 1847), ''Van Dyck à Londres'' (Odéon, 1848), ''Les Tribulations d'une actrice'' (Théâtre des Variétés The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle ..., 1857), ''La Dame de trèfle'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bonne D'enfant
''La bonne d'enfant'' (''The Nanny'') is an opérette bouffe, in one act by Jacques Offenbach to a French language, French libretto by Eugène Bercioux. It was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris on 14 October 1856. Offenbach's early operettas were small-scale one-act works, since the law in France limited musical theatre works (other than grand opera) to one-act pieces with no more than three singers and, perhaps, some mute character In 1858, this law was changed, and Offenbach was able to offer full-length operettas, beginning with ''Orpheus in the Underworld''. The piece was seen in 1857 at the St James's Theatre in London, and in Vienna in 1862 with Lucille Tostée, Tostée as Dorothée; it was subsequently produced there in Hungarian.Gänzl K. ''The Encyclopaedia of the Musical Theatre.'' Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. Roles Synopsis Dorothée is tired of being a nanny and wants to marry to become the mistress of her own house. She has two suitors: M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opérette Bouffe
This is a glossary list of opera genres, giving alternative names. "Opera" is an Italian word (short for "opera in musica"); it was not at first ''commonly'' used in Italy (or in other countries) to refer to the genre of particular works. Most composers used more precise designations to present their work to the public. Often specific genres of opera were commissioned by theatres or patrons (in which case the form of the work might deviate more or less from the genre norm, depending on the inclination of the composer). Opera genres are not exclusive. Some operas are regarded as belonging to several. Definitions Opera genres have been defined in different ways, not always in terms of stylistic rules. Some, like opera seria, refer to traditions identified by later historians,McClymonds, Marita P and Heartz, Daniel: "Opera seria" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) and others, like Zeitoper, have been defined by their own inventors. Other form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (, also , , ; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss Jr. and Arthur Sullivan. His best-known works were continually revived during the 20th century, and many of his operettas continue to be staged in the 21st. ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' remains part of the standard opera repertory. Born in Cologne, the son of a synagogue cantor, Offenbach showed early musical talent. At the age of 14, he was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatoire but found academic study unfulfilling and left after a year. From 1835 to 1855 he earned his living as a cellist, achieving international fame, and as a conductor. His ambition, however, was to compose comic pieces for the musical the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Dufresne
Jacques Marie Alfred Dufresne (1822, Orléans – 18 March 1863, Paris) was a 19th-century French composer and playwright. A student of Fromental Halévy at the Paris Conservatory, he is mostly known for having written music for hundreds of songs by authors such as Jules Verne, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse de Lamartine or Victor Hugo. He also composed operettas and opéras comiques including ''L'hôtel de la poste'' on a libretto by Philippe Gille. Works *1851: ''La Chèvre perdue'', poem by Lebaigue *1851: ''Heureuse !'', mélodie, poem by Gustave de Penmarch *1853: ''La Chanson de Fortunio'', poem by Alfred de Musset *1853: ''Reflets de Printemps'', poem by de Penmarch *1853: ''Sérénade'', poem by Victor Hugo *1853: ''Les Soirées d'automne'', twelve melodies *1854: ''La Colombe'', poem by de Penmarch *1854: ''Album de 10 mélodies'', lyrics by Eugène de Lonlay *1854: ''L’Écho du lavoir !'', ditty, lyrics by Eugène de Lonlay *1854: ''Écoute'', poem by de Penmarch * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opéra Comique
''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne),M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet and Richard Langham Smith"Opéra comique" '' Grove Music Online''. Oxford Music Online. 19 November 2009 which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections. Associated with the Paris theatre of the same name, ''opéra comique'' is not necessarily comical or shallow in nature; '' Carmen'', perhaps the most famous ''opéra comique'', is a tragedy. Use of the term The term ''opéra comique'' is complex in meaning and cannot simply be translated as "comic opera". The genre originated in the early 18th century with humorous and satirical plays performed at the theatres of the Paris fairs which contained songs ('' vaudevilles''), with new words set to already existing music. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Data
In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted. A datum is an individual value in a collection of data. Data is usually organized into structures such as tables that provide additional context and meaning, and which may themselves be used as data in larger structures. Data may be used as variables in a computational process. Data may represent abstract ideas or concrete measurements. Data is commonly used in scientific research, economics, and in virtually every other form of human organizational activity. Examples of data sets include price indices (such as consumer price index), unemployment rates, literacy rates, and census data. In this context, data represents the raw facts and figures which can be used in such a manner in order to capture the useful information out of it. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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