Comments on: Offenbach’s sexy medieval spoof “Geneviève de Brabant”

By: Tania Brandao

Tania Brandao — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:11:46 +0000

Very good work, thank you. I have just bought a photo Nadar, showing Mlle Thérese as Briscote, in 1875.

By: Dr Bernard Mooney

Dr Bernard Mooney — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 10:09:53 +0000

I seek the French libretto for Offenbach’s two gendarmes

By: Marcus

Marcus — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 21:04:26 +0000

The ‘Gendarmes Duet’ is famous for having seventeen – yes 17 – encores at the first London performance; yet performance yet productions and recordings of this hilarious operetta remain few.

By: Michael Hardern

Michael Hardern — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:27:42 +0000

In one of the – all-time – greatest operetta reviews it says, in the “Tribune” about the first New York production 1867:”Mr Grau has distinguished himself by producing at the French Theatre the most revolting mass of filth that has ever shown on the boards of a respectable place of amusement in this city. The new opera is dirty without any excuse or qualification, and the dirt is not gilded with wit, or enriched with sensuous charms; it is merely brutal – the sickening horror of the bagnio […]. Out upon the insolence which offers such beastly exhibitions to a decent community! Shame upon the spectators who can tolerate such an insult to their good fame! Geneviève is not merely indecent, but is grovels in a low depth, even below decency. No lady can look at it without sacrificing her reputation, and no respectable person can look at it at all without feeling degraded by the spectacle.” No wonder the production sold out immediately. And truth be told: THAT’s how I would like to see Genevieve today!

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:24:46 +0000

Will we all meet in Montpellier in 2016?

By: Hans van Verseveld

Hans van Verseveld — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:43:52 +0000

Very interesting article in anticipation to the Production of this eagerly awaited production of Geneviève de Brabant.