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Music Text

Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Henry Boisseaux (F)

Scoring

2(II=picc).2.2.2-4.2.3.0-timp.perc:SD/BD/cyms/tgl/TD-strings

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Opera
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Publisher

B&B

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.
World Premiere
24/12/1860
Salle Favart, Paris
Opéra-comique
Repertoire Note
Press Quotes

“True art is always ahead of its time, sometimes almost 160 years… Offenbach’s music is a discovery in itself… piquant rhythms everywhere, harmonic-melodic surprises, loving or ironic instrumental solos from cello and woodwind and a skilful orchestral intensification which puts the listener in ever greater expectation and tension…”
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“Liberty, equality, dog biscuits…Teeth bared against the mighty… a series of comic numbers that are irresistible.”
Diapason

“A masterwork!... Barkouf, the sharpest musical political satire of the 19th century, landed again in a rather tense time, 158 years after its premiere… The 41-year-old Offenbach had buried his dog so well after his defeat that only a detective like Jean-Christophe Keck was able to track down the scores. Offenbachers from far and wide made the pilgrimage to discover an unknown masterpiece.”
Die Zeit

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