DRESS REHERSAL: For Maison Lesage artistic director Hubert Barrère, the June 21 premiere of “Zémire et Azor,” the opéra-comique — a genre of French opera with dialogue as well as sung segments — will ...

The Opéra Comique has stood, in one form or another, on the discreet Place Boieldieu in central Paris since 1783, making it one of the oldest performance sites in the city. Its current home, a ...

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There’s not really much point in pondering too long on what makes Carmen one of the most popular operas ever written. First performed in 1875, Bizet’s opera has brilliant tunes that sing themselves in ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was ...

The premiere of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable was one of the most significant musical events of the 1830s. Ever since its appearance, it has been known that the work was based on an opéra comique ...

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Join the Sinfonietta Bel Canto in its celebration of the elegant 19th-century French music, presenting Daniel François Auber’s “Le Concert à la cour ou La Débutante,” an opéra-comique in one act, and ...

Last week, in Manhattan, the Little Opera of America, Inc., presented an Opera Comique, Mandragola. Those who attended were familiar with the Little Opera’s contention that the U. S. public will pay ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In 1792-1793, between Lodoïska and Eliza, Luigi Cherubini wrote another opéra-comique, the three-act Koukourgi. This work was never performed ...