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English adaptation of Offenbach’s one-act Breton legend operetta. Reinette seeks help for Pierre, who needs money to avoid conscription; Père Mathieu’s violin reveals that he owns a castle, enabling the young couple to marry while he chooses to remain a fiddler.
During the French occupation of northern Italy, convent pupil Stella falls in love with Lieutenant Robert. She discovers that her true father is Monthabor, the French drum-major, and rejects the aristocratic identity imposed on her. After disguises and military reversals thwart a forced marriage to Bambini, Stella and Robert reunite, while Claudine pairs with Griolet.
Governor Folbach must provide an heir to receive a patent of nobility. His nephew Tancred is captured by gypsies, while his niece Falka elopes with Arthur and disguises herself as Tancred to attend the Governor. Mistaken identity sets the gypsies and the Governor's arranged marriage plans against her; eventually Falka is pardoned and made heir, and Tancred marries Edwige, the gypsy chief's sister.
In Perpignan, Olivette loves Valentine, nephew of the sea captain De Merimac to whom she is engaged. When De Merimac is away at sea, Valentine disguises himself as his uncle and secretly marries Olivette, but on the captain's return their marriage is challenged. Disguises and a shipboard escape cause further confusion until Olivette and Valentine prove their case, their marriage is upheld, and the Countess acknowledges the Duke's advances.
Madame Favart escapes from a convent where she was confined after refusing the advances of Marshal de Saxe and reunites with her husband. The couple help their friends Hector and Suzanne marry, using a series of disguises to outwit the Governor. At a military camp, Madame Favart performs before the King and secures the Governor’s resignation, freeing the young couple and helping her husband win an appointment at the Opéra-Comique.
This three-act comic opera by Robert Planquette is based on William Thomas Moncrieff's play Rochester and features Nell Gwynne, King Charles II, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Earl of Rochester.
English adaptation of Offenbach’s one-act Breton legend operetta. Reinette seeks help for Pierre, who needs money to avoid conscription; Père Mathieu’s violin reveals that he owns a castle, enabling the young couple to marry while he chooses to remain a fiddler.
During the French occupation of northern Italy, convent pupil Stella falls in love with Lieutenant Robert. She discovers that her true father is Monthabor, the French drum-major, and rejects the aristocratic identity imposed on her. After disguises and military reversals thwart a forced marriage to Bambini, Stella and Robert reunite, while Claudine pairs with Griolet.
Governor Folbach must provide an heir to receive a patent of nobility. His nephew Tancred is captured by gypsies, while his niece Falka elopes with Arthur and disguises herself as Tancred to attend the Governor. Mistaken identity sets the gypsies and the Governor's arranged marriage plans against her; eventually Falka is pardoned and made heir, and Tancred marries Edwige, the gypsy chief's sister.
In Perpignan, Olivette loves Valentine, nephew of the sea captain De Merimac to whom she is engaged. When De Merimac is away at sea, Valentine disguises himself as his uncle and secretly marries Olivette, but on the captain's return their marriage is challenged. Disguises and a shipboard escape cause further confusion until Olivette and Valentine prove their case, their marriage is upheld, and the Countess acknowledges the Duke's advances.
Madame Favart escapes from a convent where she was confined after refusing the advances of Marshal de Saxe and reunites with her husband. The couple help their friends Hector and Suzanne marry, using a series of disguises to outwit the Governor. At a military camp, Madame Favart performs before the King and secures the Governor’s resignation, freeing the young couple and helping her husband win an appointment at the Opéra-Comique.
This three-act comic opera by Robert Planquette is based on William Thomas Moncrieff's play Rochester and features Nell Gwynne, King Charles II, the Duke of Buckingham, and the Earl of Rochester.
A three-act operetta based on Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, through the stage adaptation by Dion Boucicault and Joseph Jefferson.
Surcouf joins a privateer to earn enough to marry Yvonne. Four years later he returns wealthy, but a false report that Yvonne has married another man leads him to challenge a British captain, who captures him. Surcouf escapes with help from Arabelle and his crew, defeats the British frigate, and returns to Saint-Malo to marry Yvonne.
A reconstructed burlesque of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the production cast women in all the principal male roles and as the forty thieves.
Apprentice Dick Whittington flees draper Fitzwarren’s shop with his cat Thomas and boards a ship. On the island of Bambouli, Princess Hirvaia favors him, but he remains faithful to Alice. He becomes rich by ridding the island of rats with the cat’s help. Back in London he reunites with Alice, marries her, and is named Lord Mayor by Edward III.