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    La chatte métamorphosée en femme (The cat transformed into a woman) is a one-act opéra comique of 1858 with words by Eugene Scribe and Mélesville, and...
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    (The Adventures of New Year's Eve), 1814. The opera was first performed in a public venue at the Opéra-Comique on 10 February 1881, without the third (Venice)...
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    Théâtre Lyrique from the Opéra-Comique and was the star of the even more successful La chatte merveilleuse, a three-act opéra comique by Albert Grisar (18...
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    music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play...
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    directed by Gian Bistolfi (Italy, 1920, based on the play Une femme qui se jette par la fenêtre) Dita di fata, directed by Nino Giannini [it] (Italy,...
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    La belle Hélène (French pronunciation: [la bɛl elɛn], The Beautiful Helen) is an opéra bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words...
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    Henri Tayau (category 19th-century French male opera singers)
    journal de musique. Paris, 3 January 1858, p3. "La Chatte métamorphosée en femme : opéra-comique en un acte". loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved...
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    Le voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) is an 1875 opéra-féerie in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques Offenbach. Loosely based on the 1865 novel From...
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    comments that the 1874 version though still nominally an opéra bouffe was more in a new opéra comique style that pointed towards the works of Offenbach's younger...
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    Fantasio is an 1872 opéra comique in 3 acts, 4 tableaux with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto by Paul de Musset was closely based on the...
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