Posts Tagged 'Charles Lecocq'

The “La fille de Madame Angot” Disaster at Opéra Comique

The last time this wonderful operetta by Charles Lecocq was performed in Paris was in 1984, at the Châtelet. I

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a young lady radio or TV ‘interviewer’ asked me: what was

The sky is blue, the sun is shining, the waves are tinkling on the shore a hundred metres from me

16/05/2020·1 comment·

The record label Naxos has just released a fascinating CD containing French 19th century overtures. One of these is the

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They now call themselves “Bouffes de Bru Zane,” and they are taking up the operetta torch at the Théâtre Marigny

14/09/2016·1 comment·

When Stanley Potter died in 1894, his – paid – death notice said he was ‘of the Carl Rosa’. So

Palazzetto Bru Zane has devoted its energy to the rediscovery of forgotten (French) operas, so far. But now, an opéra

Marie Desclauzas was a buxom and eventually hefty star of the opérette stage who became the most admired musical character

23/06/2001·1 comment·

Along with Planquette’s Les Cloches de Corneville, La Fille de Madame Angot (Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Brussels, 4 December 1872) was

23/06/2001·1 comment·

The most potent musician in the development of the French opérette tradition in the 1870s, and for a decade the