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    Carmen (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and...
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    (1838–1875). Operas: La maison du docteur (The Physician's House), opéra comique, 1 act, (H. Boisseaux; composed either in 1852 or 1855; unperformed) Le...
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    choix !, chansonnette, music by Martin, 1863 Victoire et félicité !, duo comique, music by Auguste Girin, 1863 Avez-vous vu Lambert ?, scie parisienne...
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  • The Duo de l’ouvreuse de l’Opéra Comique et l’employé du Bon Marché (Duet of the usherette from the Opéra-Comique and the employee of the Bon-Marché department...
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    The Tales of Hoffmann (category Opera world premieres at the Opéra-Comique)
    Eve), 1814. The opera was first performed in a public venue at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881, without the third (Venice) act. It was presented in...
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    Béatrice et Bénédict (category Opéras comiques)
    Béatrice et Bénédict (Beatrice and Benedick) is an opéra comique in two acts by French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz wrote the French libretto himself...
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    obscenity". The name "Opéra-Comique" does not imply literal "comic opera" or opera buffa. The most specific characteristic of Opéra-Comique productions was the...
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  • n'y a plus de foin..., one-act play 1877: Les Femmes des réservistes, duo comique 1878: S. G. D. G., revue of the year 1880: Les Dindons de la farce, comedy...
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    sonatas, two symphonies and an assortment of stage works, notably opéra comique. Born in the French colony of Guadeloupe, his father, Georges Bologne de...
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    lyrique for mezzo-soprano, female chorus and orchestra (1884) Duo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon Marché (1888) À la musique for soprano...
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