List of operas and operettas by Emmanuel Chabrier
This is a List of operas and operettas by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894).
List
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre | Notes |
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Jean Hunyade | opera | 4 acts | Henri Fouquier | composed 1867, incomplete, only 62 pages of manuscript survive, fragments used in Gwendoline and Briséïs | ||
Le service obligatoire (with Jules Costé and René de Boisdeffre) | opérette bouffe | 3 acts | Marion, Henri Meilhac, Fournier-Sarloveze | 21 December 1872 | Paris, Cercle de l'Union artistique | score lost |
Fisch-Ton-Kan | opéra bouffe | 1 act | Paul Verlaine and probably Lucien Viotti, after Thomas Sauvage and Gabriel de Lurieu's Fich-Tong-Khan ou L'orphelin de la Tartarie | 31 March 1875 | Paris, Cercle de l'Union Artistique | composed 1863–1864, incomplete |
L'étoile | opéra bouffe | 3 acts | Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo | 28 November 1877 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens | |
Le Sabbat | opéra comique | 1 act | Paul Armand Silvestre | composed 1877, incomplete, only some pages survive | ||
La Girondine | opéra | Jules Claretie | composed 1878, lost or transferred to Les muscadins | |||
Une éducation manquée | opérette | 1 act | Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo | 1 May 1879 | Paris, Cercle de la Presse | |
Les muscadins | opéra | 4 acts | Jules Claretie and Paul Armand Silvestre | composed 1880, incomplete, only certain numbers survive in manuscript | ||
Gwendoline | opéra | 3 acts | Catulle Mendès | 10 April 1886 | Brussels, La Monnaie | |
Le roi malgré lui | opéra comique | 3 acts | Émile de Najac and Paul Burani, revised by Jean Richepin, after Marguerite-Louise Virginie Ancelot's Le roi malgré lui | 18 May 1887 | Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart) | |
Briséïs, or Les amants de Corinthe | drame lyrique | 3 acts | Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël, after Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth | 13 January 1897 | Paris, Concerts Lamoureux | composed 1888–91, Act 1 complete, some sketches for Act 2 and themes in manuscript [1] |
Vaucochard et fils Ier | opérette | Paul Verlaine and Lucien Viotti | 22 April 1941 | Paris, Salle de l'Ancien Conservatoire | composed 1864, incomplete, only four surviving numbers |
References
- Notes
- ^ Delage, Roger. Emmanuel Chabrier. Fayard, Paris, 1999. Catalogue des oeuvres, pp. 685–715
- Sources
- Sadie, Stanley (Ed.) (1994) [1992]. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. vol. 1, A–D, chpt: "Chabrier, (Alexis-)Emmanuel" by Myriam Soumagnac. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 0-935859-92-6.
- Operone page on Chabrier, accessed 31 March 2011
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- List of operas and operettas
- List of compositions
- Briséïs
- L'étoile
- Fisch-Ton-Kan
- Gwendoline
- Le roi malgré lui
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