Roger’s “Joséphine Vendue Par Ses Soeurs” Returns to Paris
In January 2025 the Compagnie Fortunio is bringing the opéra-bouffe Joséphine Vendue Par Ses Soeurs back to Paris, for a
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The Biography of Valtesse de la Bigne, Mistress of Paris
We’ve all read stories about the big players: Jacques Offenbach, Ludovic Halevy, Henri Meilhac, and certainly Napoleon III. But you
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Where To Put an Offenbach Festival? Here Are Some Suggestions
If resources enough could be gathered together for an annual festival of Offenbach and maybe his time, where would it
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Revisting “Au Dahomey” (1892). Or: A Blackface King Béhazin?
I came upon this grand 1892 poster this week… I didn’t know anything about the show, my experience of the
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“Le Voyage Dans La Lune”: Offenbach’s 1875 Sci-Fi Spectacle
Three years and eight major shows after the splenditious production of Le Roi Carotte, Offenbach returned to the world of
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