List of operas and operettas by Léo Delibes
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This is list of operas and operettas written by the French composer Léo Delibes (1836–1891).
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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La princesse Ravigote | opéra comique | 3 acts | lost | ||
Le Don Juan suisse | opérette | 4 acts | lost | ||
Le roi des montagnes | opéra comique | 3 acts | unfinished | ||
Deux sous de charbon ou Le suicide de Bigorneau | opérette ('asphyxie lyrique') | 1 act | Jules Moinaux | 9 February 1856 | Paris, Folies-Nouvelles |
Deux vieilles gardes | opérette | 1 act | Ferdinand de Villeneuve and Alphonse Lemonnier | 8 August 1856 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Six demoiselles à marier | opérette | 1 act | Ernest Jaime and Adolphe Choler | 12 November 1856 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Maître Griffard | opéra comique | 1 act | Eugène Mestépès and Adolphe Jaime | 3 October 1857 | Paris, Théâtre Lyrique |
La fille du golfe | opéra comique | 1 act | Charles Nuitter | published in 1859[1] | |
L'omelette à la Follembuche | opérette | 1 act | Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel | 8 June 1859 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Monsieur de Bonne-Étoile | opéra comique | 1 act | Philippe Gille | 4 February 1860 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Les musiciens de l'orchestre (with Jacques Offenbach, Jules Erlanger, and Aristide Hignard) |
opérette | 2 acts | Philippe Auguste Pittaud de Forges and Achille Bourdois | 25 January 1861 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Les eaux d'Ems | comédie | 1 act | Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy | 9 April 1861 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Mon ami Pierrot | opérette | 1 act | Lockroy (Joseph Philippe Simon) | 22 July 1862 | Bad Ems, Kursaal |
Le jardinier et son seigneur | opéra comique | 1 act | Michel Carré and Théodore Barrière | 1 May 1863 | Paris, Théâtre Lyrique |
Le tradition | prologue en vers | 1 act | Henri d'Erville | 5 January 1864 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Grande nouvelle! | opérette | 1 act | Élisabeth Françoise Adam-Boisgonnier | published in 1864[2] | |
Le serpent à plumes | farce | 1 act | Philippe Gille and Cham (Amédée de Noé) | 16 December 1864 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Le boeuf Apis | opéra comique | 2 acts | Philippe Gille and Eugène Furpille | 15 April 1865 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre – Act 4 only with Georges Bizet (Act 1), Isidore Legouix (Act 2) and Émile Jonas (Act 3) |
opérette | 4 acts | Paul Siraudin and William Busnach | 13 December 1867 | Paris, Théâtre de l'Athénée |
L'écossais de Chatou | opérette | 1 act | Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime | 16 January 1869 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
La cour du roi Pétaud | opéra comique | 3 acts | Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime | 24 April 1869 | Paris, Théâtre des Variétés[3] |
Le roi l'a dit | opéra comique | 3 acts | Edmond Gondinet | 24 May 1873 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
Jean de Nivelle | opéra | 3 acts | Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille | 8 March 1880 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
Lakmé | opéra | 3 acts | Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti | 14 April 1883 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
Kassya (unfinished, completed by Jules Massenet) | drame lyrique | 5 acts | Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille | 24 March 1893 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
References
[edit]- Macdonald, Hugh (1992), "Delibes, Léo" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
- Reel, James. Léo Delibes – compositions at AllMusic
- Some of the information in this article is taken from the Dutch Wikipedia article.
- ^ Published as vocal score in Magasin des demoiselles, Vol. 15 (1859) Nos 10 and 11, for amateur use.
- ^ Published as vocal score in Journal des demoiselles, Vol. 33 (1864) No 5, for amateur use.
- ^ An English-language adaptation by Henry Brougham Farnie was produced as Fleur-de-lys on 5 April 1873 at the Philharmonic Theatre, London, produced by Charles Morton