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Eugène Vauthier
Eugène Vauthier (29 September 1843 – 11 November 1910) was a French baritone whose career was in comic operas by Offenbach, Lecocq, Hervé and other composers of the genre. From 1869 until his retirement in 1905 he was a member of successive Parisian theatre companies, and also made occasional appearances in London. Life and career Vauthier was born in Auxerre in 1843. From childhood he was passionate about the theatre, and after learning his craft in the French provinces he made his Paris début in 1869 in an opéra-bouffe, ''Le Canard à trois becs'' – the duck with three beaks – at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques. His acting and singing were received with enthusiasm."Eugène Vauthier" ''Le Figaro'', 12 November 1910, p. 2 After the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Petite Mariée
''Le petite mariée'' (The Little Bride) is a three-act opéra-bouffe, with music by Charles Lecocq and libretto by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris on 21 December 1875. The opera, set in 16th-century Italy, depicts the farcical complications after the hero is caught ''in flagrante'' with the local grandee's wife. The piece was well received and ran for more than 200 performances. It was subsequently staged in London, New York, Berlin and Vienna, but has not gained a permanent place in the operatic repertoire. Background In the early 1870s Lecocq had come from relative obscurity to supplant Jacques Offenbach as Paris's favourite composer of comic opera. Andrew Lamb"Lecocq, (Alexandre) Charles" ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press. Retrieved 20 September 2018 His ''La fille de Madame Angot'', first seen in Brussels in 1872 and then in Paris the following year, had broken box-office records, and his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (, ; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, , ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière". Born into a prosperous family and having studied at the Collège de Clermont (now Lycée Louis-le-Grand), Molière was well suited to begin a life in the theatre. Thirteen years as an itinerant actor helped him polish his comedic abilities while he began writing, combining Commedia dell'arte elements with the more refined French comedy. Through the patronage of aristocrats including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Rosa Opera Company
The Carl Rosa Opera Company was founded in 1873 by Carl Rosa, a German-born musical impresario, and his wife, British operatic soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa to present opera in English in London and the British provinces. The company premiered many operas in the UK, employing a mix of established opera stars and young singers, reaching new opera audiences with popularly priced tickets. It survived Rosa's death in 1889, and continued to present opera in English on tour until 1960, when it was obliged to close for lack of funds. The company was revived in 1997, presenting mostly lighter operatic works including those by Gilbert and Sullivan. The company "was arguably the most influential opera company ever in the UK". Background Carl Rosa was born Karl August Nikolaus Rose in Hamburg, Germany, the son of a local businessman. A child violin prodigy, Rosa studied at the Conservatorium at Leipzig and in Paris. In 1863 he was appointed Konzertmeister at Hamburg, where he had oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End Theatre
West End theatre is mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres in and near the West End of London.Christopher Innes, "West End" in ''The Cambridge Guide to Theatre'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 1194–1195, Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London. Famous screen actors, British and international alike, frequently appear on the London stage. There are a total of 39 theatres in the West End, with the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, opened in May 1663, the oldest theatre in London. The Savoy Theatre – built as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan – was entirely lit by electricity in 1881. Opening in October 2022, @sohoplace is the first new West End theatre in 50 years. The Society of London Theatre (SOLT) announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'œil Crevé
''L'œil crevé'' (literally "The pierced eye", more loosely "It hit me right in the eye") is an ''opéra bouffe'' with libretto and music by Hervé, first produced in Paris on 12 October 1867 at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques. Main roles Background Hervé had written one act operettas for many years, which due to the licensing system in Paris until 1858 was all that was allowed for the theatres where his works were presented. In 1858 this restriction was removed and his first full length ''opéra bouffe'' '' Les chevaliers de la Table Ronde'' was produced at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in 1866 with great success. This was followed by ''L’œil crevé'' at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques in 1867. These works, along with the same composer's '' Chilpéric'' of 1868 and ''Le petit Faust'' of 1869, represent burlesque - comic treatment of serious subjects, full of deliberate anachronisms and zany situations - at its most extreme. Synopsis Fleur de Noblesse, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Jour Et La Nuit (opera)
''Le jour et la nuit'' (Day and Night) is an opéra-bouffe with a libretto by Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier and music by Charles Lecocq. It was first performed in Paris in 1881, ran for 193 performances and was subsequently staged at other theatres in Europe, North America and Australia. It has not remained in the regular international operatic repertoire. The opera depicts the confused events and various assumed identities surrounding the wedding night of a Portuguese aristocrat. Background and first performances Since ''La fille de Madame Angot'' (1872), Lecocq had been successful throughout the 1870s in what the critic Robert Pourvoyeur calls "the same elegantly risqué mould – the wedding night more or less thwarted".Pourvoyeur, Robert"Jour et la nuit (Le)" ''Opérette – Théâtre musical'', Académie Nationale de l'Opérette. Retrieved 28 October 2018 A list of the gross takings of productions in Paris during the two decades from 1870, published in 1891, showed ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Fille De Madame Angot
''La fille de Madame Angot'' (''Madame Angot's Daughter'') is an opéra comique in three acts by Charles Lecocq with words by Clairville, Paul Siraudin and Victor Koning. It was premiered in Brussels in December 1872 and soon became a success in Paris, London, New York and across continental Europe. Along with Robert Planquette's ''Les cloches de Corneville'', ''La fille de Madame Angot'' was the most successful work of the French-language musical theatre in the last three decades of the 19th century, and outperformed other noted international hits such as ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' and ''Die Fledermaus''. The opera depicts the romantic exploits of Clairette, a young Parisian florist, engaged to one man but in love with another, and up against a richer and more powerful rival for the latter's attentions. Unlike some more risqué French comic operas of the era, the plot of ''La fille de Madame Angot'' proved exportable to more strait-laced countries without the need for extensive rewriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orphée Aux Enfers
''Orpheus in the Underworld'' and ''Orpheus in Hell'' are English names for (), a comic opera with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed as a two-act "opéra bouffon" at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, Paris, on 21 October 1858, and was extensively revised and 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 legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. In this version Orpheus is not the son of Apollo but a rustic violin teacher. He is glad to be rid of his wife, Eurydice, when she is abducted by the god of the underworld, Pluto. Orpheus has to be bullied by Public Opinion into trying to rescue Eurydice. The reprehensible conduct of the gods of Olympus in the opera was widely seen as a veiled satire of the court and government of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. Some critics expressed outrage at the librettists' di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Droit D'aînesse
''Le droit d'aînesse'' ("The Birthright") is an opéra bouffe, a form of operetta, in three acts by Francis Chassaigne with a French libretto by Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo. It premiered in Paris in 1883. An English-language version titled ''Falka'' (after the name of the principal female character), with a libretto translated and adapted by Henry Brougham Farnie, was successfully premiered in London later that year followed by productions throughout the English-speaking world. ''Le droit d'aînesse'' ''Le droit d'aînesse'' was first performed on 27 January 1883 in music, 1883, at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris, directed by Jules Brasseur with a cast featuring Marguerite Ugalde, Jean-François Berthelier, Juliette Darcourt, Albert Brasseur and Eugène Vauthier. Roles and premiere cast ''Falka'' ''Falka'', the English version of ''Le droit d'aînesse'', with Leterrier and Vanloo's libretto translated and adapted by Henry Brougham Farnie, was first produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Cœur Et La Main
is a three-act opéra comique with music by Charles Lecocq and words by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter, Charles Nuitter and Alexandre Beaume. It was first performed on 19 October 1882 at the Théâtre des Nouveautés#1878–1911 (boulevard des Italiens), Théâtre de Nouveautés, Paris. The plot revolves around an arranged royal marriage and the determination of the reluctant bridegroom to subvert it. He eventually finds that his royal bride is in fact the woman he has fallen in love with while unaware of her real identity. Background During the 1870s Lecocq had supplanted Jacques Offenbach as Paris's favourite composer of comic operas.Lamb, Andrew"Lecocq, (Alexandre) Charles" ''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2001. Retrieved 9 November 2011 He had been chiefly associated with the Théâtre de la Renaissance, where his ''Giroflé-Girofla'' (1874), ''La petite mariée'' (1875) and ''Le petit duc'' (1878) were particularly successful. Having quarrelled with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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