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    Barbe-bleue (French pronunciation: [baʁb blø], Bluebeard) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in three acts (four scenes) by Jacques Offenbach to a French...
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  • Hélène, Barbe-bleue (Bluebeard), La Vie parisienne, La Périchole and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein. Bartlet, M. Elizabeth C.: "Opéra bouffe" Stanley...
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  • Barbe-bleue may refer to: Barbe-bleue (opera), opéra bouffe in three acts by Jacques Offenbach Barbe-bleue, a 1943 radio opera by Jacques Ibert Barbe-bleue...
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  • List of operettas by Jacques Offenbach (category Operas by Jacques Offenbach)
    opérette bouffe, and there is a single 'opérette fantastique'. There are 24 opéras comiques, and 24 opéras bouffes, together with 2 'opéras bouffes féeries'...
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    Henri Meilhac (category French opera librettists)
    (with Ludovic Halévy), Théâtre des Variétés, 3 December 1866: Barbe-bleue, opéra bouffe in 3 acts and 4 tableaux (with Ludovic Halévy), music by Jacques...
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    was another work that leaned more to romantic comic opera than to the more ebullient opéra bouffe. It was well received, but has been less often revived...
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  • "The Walk to the Paradise Garden". 1907 Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Paul Dukas). Dukas's only surviving opera, based like Debussy's Pelléas, on a Symbolist drama...
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    Dukas's colourful Symbolist drama, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (1907). The more frivolous genres of operetta and opéra comique still thrived in the hands of composers...
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    La belle Hélène (category Opéras bouffes)
    Hélène (French pronunciation: [la bɛl elɛn], The Beautiful Helen) is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac...
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    Orpheus in the Underworld (category 1858 operas)
    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...
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