BERLIN — The composer Jacques Offenbach captured the streets of mid-19th-century Paris like no other. But while he produced about 130 scores for the stage, his profile is often reduced to a spirited ...

Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is a comic opera. Its score was composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French text written by Ludovic Halévy and ...

Jacques Offenbach has written 25 shows including La Belle Hélène (Composer), La Jolie Parfumeuse (Composer), The Gay Parisienne (Composer), Orpheus in the Underworld (Composer), Madame Favart ...

The Tales of Hoffmann is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the ...

It almost collapsed — and yet Friday’s opening night of Opera Company of Middlebury’s production of Jacques Offenbach’s “Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld),” to say the least, was ...

Opera À La Carte San Diego, which made its debut in May 2024 with an intimate East Village production of Puccini’s “La bohème,” will return later this month with an opera that has never been stage in ...

Once again, more than half a decade has gone by since clarinetist GIanluigi Trovesi and accordionist Gianni Coscia last recorded. Round About Weill (ECM, 2005) represented a shift away from the ...

Offenbach, who also launched avant-garde innovations in stagecraft and design, played a leading role in cultural change, not only in music but also in literature, art, and politics, as he offered an ...

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Operette in drei Akten. Text von Rainer Dachselt und Michael Quast nach dem Libretto von Henri Meilhac und Ludovic Halévy. "Ja sind denn alle verrückt geworden?" fragen sich viele in diesen Tagen.