She has also conducted Pelléas et Mélisande ( Covent Garden, London ), Le Comte Ory ( Glyndebourne Festival ), Cosi fan tutte ( Opera North ), Chabrier's L ' étoile ( Edinburgh Festival ), Zaïde and Der Schauspieldirektor ( Bastille ), L ' Enfant et les Sortilèges ( Châtelet ), Boîeldieu's La Dame Blanche ( Opéra Comique, Paris ), Mitridate, La Donna del lago, Die Zauberflöte, Le Nozze di Figaro and Bastien und Bastienne ( Nice ), La Clemenza di Tito ( Orléans ), La Traviata ( Nancy ), Idomeneo and Cosi fan tutte ( Liège ), Maria Stuarda ( Torino ), La Cenerentola ( Rome ) and Les Oiseaux de passage ( Bologna ).

Chabrier's little one-act operetta, presented yesterday afternoon at Town Hall, is a fragile, precious little piece, very French, not without wit and charm.

Chabrier's delightful music stands just at the point where the classical, rationalist tradition, ( handed down to Chabrier largely in the form of operetta and salon music ) becomes virtually neo-classicism.

The spring season opened in March 2010 and included Emmanuel Chabrier's L ' étoile directed by Mark Lamos and Handel's Partenope directed by Andrew Chown ; original production directed by Francisco Negrin.

The following day they played Emmanuel Chabrier's Trois valses romantiques for Liszt.

The story echoes some of the characters and situations of Chabrier's Fisch-Ton-Kan.

Chabrier's music fared no better in London in 1899, where the score was rewritten by Ivan Caryll for an adaptation at the Savoy Theatre called The Lucky Star.

In Brussels in 1909, Chabrier's music was restored, and there was a performance at the Arts Décoratifs Exposition in Paris in 1925, conducted by Albert Wolff.

In addition to the Fauré Pelléas et Mélisande suite mentioned above he orchestrated the bulk of Claude Debussy's ' legende dansée ' Khamma under the composer's direction, from the piano score, and orchestrated Cole Porter's ballet Within the Quota ; other works he transcribed include Schubert's Wanderer Fantasie and Chabrier's Bourrée Fantasque.

From 1881 to 1903 he was conductor at the Karlsruhe Opera, and made a wide reputation for his activity there, particularly in producing the works of Wagner, Hector Berlioz and Emmanuel Chabrier, whose operas he championed ; Mottl also orchestrated Chabrier's Bourrée fantasque and Trois valses romantiques.

The song's melody is based on Emmanuel Chabrier's 1883 composition, España.

At first he attempted Véron to accept the opéra-comique Le portefaix to a libretto by Scribe, which he had been contracted to compose in early 1831 ; but Véron insisted on a full five act piece.

* Le Brigand, opéra-comique en 3 actes premiere 1795 ;

He declared that the first work worthy to be called opéra-comique was Philidor's 1759 Blaise le savetier, and he described the gradual divergence of Italian and French notions of comic opera, with verve, imagination and gaiety from Italian composers, and cleverness, common sense, good taste and wit from the French composers.

A one-act opéra-comique with music by Amédée Dutacq and libretto by Abraham Dreyfus entitled Battez Philidor!

In 1861, Reyer composed an opéra-comique in three acts and six scenes, La statue (" The Statue "), whose plot was inspired by " One Thousand and One Nights " ( also knowns as: " Arabian Nights ") with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier.

He resigned from this position in order to write his opéra-comique Les Recruteurs, hoping to achieve as a composer the same success he had as an organist.

The changing political climate-more stable under the rule of Napoleon-was reflected in musical fashion as comedy began to creep back into opéra-comique.

In France, which was the only European country that had rejected the employment of castrati, a voice type similar to the Italian early-19th-century tenore contraltino had been developing since the 17th century, under the name of haute-contre, for which the majority of heroic and amatory parts were written, both in grand opera, and in opéra-comique.

* Le roi David, composition by Arthur Honegger

Based on a play by Victor Hugo ( Le roi s ' amuse ), the libretto had to undergo substantial revisions in order to satisfy the epoch's censorship, and the composer was on the verge of giving it all up a number of times.

* Lalo: Le roi d ' Ys

The Fool and Death, a bronze sculpture by Bernhardt depicting the character of Triboulet in Hugo's Le roi s ' amuse

* Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto ( based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s ' amuse ) is set in Mantua.

* Welschinger, Le roi de Rome, 1811 – 32, ( Paris, 1897 )

fr: Le Retour du roi

The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s ' amuse by Victor Hugo.

Verdi soon stumbled upon Victor Hugo's Le roi s ' amuse.

Excerpts from La coupe du roi de Thulé, edited by Winton Dean, were broadcast by the BBC on 12 July 1955, and Le docteur Miracle was revived in London on 8 December 1957 by the Park Lane Group.

Dagobert was immortalized in the song Le bon roi Dagobert ( The Good King Dagobert ), a nursery rhyme featuring exchanges between the king and his chief adviser, Saint Eligius ( Eloi in French ).

In 1984, a 112-minute long French-Italian comedy, Le bon roi Dagobert ( Good King Dagobert ) was made, based on Dagobert I.

* Le bon roi Dagobert ( 1963 )

* Le roi Lear, for orchestra ( 1883 )

* Le roi David ( Honegger ), 1923 choral work by Arthur Honegger

René of Anjou ( Rei Rainièr in Occitan ) ( 16 January 1409 – 10 July 1480 ), also known as René I of Naples and Good King René ( French Le bon roi René ), was Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence ( 1434 – 1480 ), Count of Piedmont, Duke of Bar ( 1430 – 1480 ), Duke of Lorraine ( 1431 – 1453 ), King of Naples ( 1435 – 1442 ; titular 1442 – 1480 ), titular King of Jerusalem ( 1438 – 1480 ) and Aragon ( 1466 – 1480 ) ( including Sicily, Majorca, Corsica ).

* Noël Coulet, Alice Planche, and Françoise Robin, Le roi René: le prince, le mécène, l ' écrivain, le mythe, Aix-en-Provence, Édisud, 1982

B. D. Le Tombeau de Childeric I, roi des Francs.

In the early 1920s Honegger shot to fame with his " dramatic psalm " Le roi David (" King David "), which is still in the choral repertoire.

: 1921: H 37 Le roi David ( King David ) libretto by René Morax, version for orchestra in 1923

fr: Le Don du roi ( film, 1995 )

His most notable works include ballets Coppélia ( 1870 ) and Sylvia ( 1876 ) as well as the operas Le roi l ' a dit ( 1873 ) and Lakmé ( 1883 ).

He wrote a mass, his Messe brève, and composed operettas almost yearly and occasional music for the theater, such as dances and antique airs for Victor Hugo's Le roi s ' amuse, the play that Verdi turned into Rigoletto.

* Léo Delibes — Le roi l ' a dit