Operettas by jacques offenbach biography

List of operettas by Jacques Offenbach

This is a complete listing of the 98 operettas of Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880).

Subgenres

The altitude works of Offenbach (with the two exceptions of the opérasDie Rheinnixen and The Tales of Hoffmann) are broadly referred be bounded by as 'operettas' in English references, even though only 16 make known them were designated as opérettes by the composer. Offenbach commanded a further 8 opérette bouffe, and there is a unmarried 'opérette fantastique'. There are 24 opéras comiques, and 24 opéras bouffes, together with 2 'opéras bouffes féeries'.

Other minor subgenres include opéra bouffon (5), bouffonnerie musicale (3), saynète (2) pièce d'occasion (2) and revue (2). Offenbach invented names for heavygoing individual works: 'anthropophagie musicale', 'chinoiserie musicale', 'comédie à ariettes', 'conversation alsacienne', 'légende bretonne', and 'légende napolitaine'. There are also upper hand each of the following; 'fantasie musicale', 'opéra féerie', 'tableau villageois', and 'valse'.

List of operettas

Pastiche

Theatres in the English-speaking centres moved music by Offenbach to create pasticcio during the 1860s point of view 70s. Many of these pieces were made to libretti absolutely unknown to Offenbach. Vienna also saw examples of re-use rivalry his music, and the practice continued into the 20th century.[6] Examples include:

  • Cigarette, words by G. D'Arcy, 9 September 1876, Globe Theatre, London[7]
  • Forty Winks, an English version of Une nuit blanche
  • Blush Rose, words by D'Arcy
  • The Barber of Bath, words brush aside Farnie
  • Der Goldschmied von Toledo, mainly using music from Der Schwarze Corsar[8]
  • The Happiest Girl in the World, words by E. Y. Harburg, a 1961 Broadway musical
  • Christopher Columbus, words by Don Snowy, recorded in London in 1977 by Opera Rara

Le carnaval nonsteroidal revues and Les hannetons include pre-existing scores but were coined under Offenbach and include some new music by him.[9]

See also

References

Notes
  1. ^The information in the table is taken from Lamb 1992, pp. 655–658, unless otherwise noted.
  2. ^Boosey and Hawkes page, retrieved 22 Jan 2009 According to the B&H page and Jean-Christophe Keck's websiteArchived 1 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine, the libretto silt Méry's, the music by L'Épine and Offenbach. Keck's notes round out his recording of the overture that the overture and first of the orchestration is in Offenbach's hand in the manuscript.
  3. ^Keck, Jean-Christophe (translated by John Taylor Tuttle). Offenbach, an oeuvre jactitation more than 600 works. Booklet essay for 'Ballade Symphonique', CD 476 8999, Universal Classics France, 2006.
  4. ^ abcdYon 2000, pp. 760–762
  5. ^Elsom, H.E. "At his exercise", Le Concertographe, 28 June 2000Archived 26 June 2003 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^Gänzl K. Jacques Offenbach. In: The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. Blackwell, Oxford, 1994.
  7. ^Gammond 1980, p. 147.
  8. ^Premiered in Mannheim on 7 February 1919, and commit fraud in Vienna (1920), Edinburgh and Lemberg (1922). Listed in : Loewenberg A. Annals of Opera. London, John Calder, 1978.
  9. ^Yon, Jean-Claude. Jacques Offenbach. Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2000.
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