- Daphnis et Chloé (Offenbach)
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For the ballet by Maurice Ravel, see Daphnis et Chloé.
Jacques Offenbach Operas- Les deux aveugles (1855)
- Le violoneux (1855)
- Ba-ta-clan (1855)
- La rose de Saint-Flour (1856)
- Le 66 (1856)
- Le financier et le savetier (1856)
- La bonne d'enfant (1856)
- Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins (1857)
- Le mariage aux lanternes (1857)
- Mesdames de la Halle (1858)
- La chatte métamorphosée en femme (1858)
- Orpheus in the Underworld (1858)
- Geneviève de Brabant (1859)
- Daphnis et Chloé (1860)
- Le pont des soupirs (1861)
- M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . . (1861)
- Monsieur et Madame Denis (1862)
- Les bavards (1862)
- Il signor Fagotto (1863)
- Lischen et Fritzchen (1863)
- Die Rheinnixen (1864)
- La belle Hélène (1864)
- Barbe-bleue (1866)
- La vie parisienne (1866)
- La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867)
- Robinson Crusoé (1867)
- L'île de Tulipatan (1868)
- La Périchole (1868)
- Les brigands (1869)
- Le roi Carotte (1872)
- Fantasio (1872)
- Pomme d'api (1873)
- Maître Péronilla (1873)
- La jolie parfumeuse (1873)
- Bagatelle (1874)
- Madame l'archiduc (1874)
- Le voyage dans la lune (1875)
- Madame Favart (1878)
- La fille du tambour-major (1879)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (1880, unfinished)
Daphnis et Chloé is a one-act opérette by Jacques Offenbach. The libretto was by Clairville (alias of Louis Nicolaïe (1822-1879)) and Jules Cordier (alias of Éléonore Tenaille de Vaulabelle (1802-1859)), based on the story of Daphnis and Chloe.
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Performance history
It premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens (Salle Choiseul) on 27 March 1860 under the direction of the composer.
In 1907, the piece was arranged by André Bloch and performed as Myrianne et Daphné at the Monte Carlo Opera, with 'Tate' (Maggie Teyte) as Tyrius, Edmond Clément as Myrianne and Hector Dufranne as Alphésibée.[1]
Roles
Role Voice type Premiere Cast,
(Conductor: )Pan, the god bass Désiré Chloé, a shepherdess soprano Collas Daphnis, a shepherd mezzo-soprano Juliette Beau Calisto, a bacchante soprano Marie Cico Xantippe, a bacchante Marguerite Chabert Locoë, a bacchante Aricie, a bacchante Eriphyle, a bacchante Amalthée, a bacchante Niobé, a bacchante Recordings
References
- ^ Walsh T J. Monte Carlo opera, 1879–1909. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin, 1975.
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Categories:- Operas by Jacques Offenbach
- Opérettes
- 1860 operas
- Operas based on Greco-Roman mythology
- One-act operas
- Operas
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