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 ...
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