In the second half of the 19th century, Jacques Offenbach created operetta with witty and cynical works such as Orphée aux enfers, as well as the opera Les Contes d ' Hoffmann ; Charles Gounod scored a massive success with Faust ; and Bizet composed Carmen, which, once audiences learned to accept its blend of Romanticism and realism, became the most popular of all opéra comiques.

Bizet became, and remained, a devoted friend of Offenbach.

The decadence became still more apparent when Offenbach was no longer at hand to assist the two authors with his quaint musical irony, and when they had to deal with interpreters almost destitute of singing powers.

It quickly made its way to France, where it became opéra bouffon, and eventually, in the following century, French operetta, with Jacques Offenbach as its most accomplished practitioner.

He first became a coach in 1974 with Kickers Offenbach, but failed to make an immediate impact.

He then studied medicine at the University of Göttingen, became a physician at Offenbach in 1815, and was a surgeon in the army.

After working as a teacher at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, he became a production manager on Hans W. Geißendörfer's TV series Lindenstraße.

He was born in Offenbach near Frankfurt, emigrated to England in 1935 and became a naturalized British citizen in 1947.

Indeed, together with its grotesque qualities, frivolity is one of the defining elements of " authentic " operetta à la Offenbach and Hervé.

On tour in 1871, Carte conducted Cox and Box by composer Arthur Sullivan and dramatist F. C. Burnand, in tandem with English adaptations of two Offenbach pieces, called Rose of Auvergne and Breaking the Spell, in which Carte's client Selina Dolaro appeared.

In the same year, he arranged for his client, Offenbach, to collaborate with H. B. Farnie to write a new operetta on the theme of Dick Whittington and His Cat, which played during the Christmas season at the Alhambra Theatre.

Even after the initial production of Trial by Jury, however, Carte continued to produce continental operetta, touring in the summer of 1876 with a repertoire consisting of English adaptations of French opera bouffe ( Offenbach ’ s La Périchole, and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot and Léon Vasseur's La Timbale d ' argent ), paired with two one-act English after-pieces ( Happy Hampstead and Trial by Jury ).

" The British press reported a triumphant royal command performance ; The Illustrated London News wrote, " Herr Jacques Offenbach, the astonishing Violoncellist, performed on Thursday evening at Windsor before the Emperor of Russia, the King of Saxony, Queen Victoria, and Prince Albert with great success.

Offenbach returned to Paris with his reputation and his bank balance both much enhanced.

" Offenbach approached Hervé, who agreed to present a new one-act operetta with words by Jules Moinaux and music by Offenbach, called Oyayaye ou La reine des îles.

Offenbach pressed ahead with plans to present his works himself at his own theatre and to abandon further thoughts of acceptance by the Opéra-Comique.

While maintaining his civil service career he went on to collaborate ( sometimes under discreet pseudonyms ) with Offenbach in 21 works over the next 24 years.

After this rebuff Bizet entered an opera competition which Jacques Offenbach had organised for young composers, with a prize of 1, 200 francs.

To this end, he sent the imperial notary Bernhard Christian Groot from Offenbach with two journeymen printers as witnesses to the Leipzig Book Commission.

) and a DVD of the entire September 29, 1978, performance ( with Erskine and Pastorius ) in Offenbach, Germany, not previously available.

In 2011, the Zawinul estate, in conjunction with an independent label, released a 40th anniversary commemorative trilogy of previously unavailable Weather Report live shows: In March Live in Berlin 1975 was released both on vinyl and as a CD / DVD set ; in June the Live in Offenbach 1978 DVD was re-released together with a previously unavailable double CD of the complete show ; in October Live in Cologne 1983 was released as both DVD and double CD.

He moved with his daughter and his retinue to Offenbach, in Germany, where he assumed the title of " Baron of Offenbach ," and lived as a wealthy nobleman, receiving financial support from his Polish and Moravian followers, who made frequent pilgrimages to Offenbach.

The novel was adapted as the opera Le voyage dans la lune in 1875, with music by Jacques Offenbach.

His output was exceeded by his contemporaries Draghi, Piccinni, Paisiello, Guglielmi, and the most prolific of all, with 166 operas, Wenzel Müller ; the only composer of later generations who approached his output was Offenbach 100 years later.

Barbier, together with Michel Carré, had written a play, Les contes fantastiques d ' Hoffmann, produced at the Odéon Theatre in Paris in 1851, which Offenbach had seen.

Jacques Offenbach further developed and popularized operetta, giving it its enormous vogue during the Second Empire and afterwards.

The French writers ' duo Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote a large number of opera and operetta libretti for the likes of Jacques Offenbach, Jules Massenet and Georges Bizet.

* Jacques Offenbach ( 1819 – 1880 ), French composer of German descent

Jacques Offenbach ( 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880 ) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period.

This did not prevent the French master of operetta, Jacques Offenbach, from assigning the villain's role in The Tales of Hoffmann to a big-voiced baritone for the sake of dramatic effect.

* The " Couplets du facteur rural " ( verses of the country postman ) in Act 3 of Le château à Toto, French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy ( music by Jacques Offenbach, 1869 ) touch on the merits of the " vélocipède ".

Some Frankists were active during the French Revolution, such as Moses Dobruška, a son of Frank's Sabbatian cousin in Offenbach Shendl Dobruska.

* French Recital ( Berlioz, Offenbach, Massenet, Thomas, Gounod ), Rosenkrans

* Le 66 is an opérette in one act of 1856 with music by Jacques Offenbach and a French libretto by Pittaud de Forges and Laurencin.

In addition, some Quebec artists also included from the 1960s to the 1980s Lewis Furey, Leonard Cohen, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Men Without Hats, Norman Iceberg, Rational Youth, Corey Hart, Julie Masse, Martine St-Clair, Nuance, Marjo, Offenbach, The Box, Gino Vannelli, Luba, Jacynthe, France Joli, Sass Jordan and Grimskunk, who have frequently recorded both English and French material.

Viennese operetta was inspired by the fashion for the French operettas of Jacques Offenbach.

" Mr. R. D ' Oyly Carte's Opera Bouffe Company " took Trial on tour, playing it alongside French works by Offenbach and Alexandre Charles Lecocq.

In the early 1860s, French operettas by Jacques Offenbach were first presented in Vienna.

* French Opera Arias: Arias by Berlioz, Gounod, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Thomas, with conductor Sir John Pritchard, CBS 1976.

The work's genesis was attributed to the composition of another waltz by Jacques Offenbach later titled ' Abendblätter ' when the French opera composer dedicated his work to the influential Vienna Authors ' and Journalists ' Association (' Concordia ').

Important French composers include Pérotin, Machaut, Josquin des Prez, Lully, Couperin, Rameau, Leclair, Grétry, Méhul, Auber, Berlioz, Alkan, Offenbach, Franck, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Massenet, D ' Indy, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Roussel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Messiaen, Dutilleux and Boulez.

L ' île de Tulipatan ( The Island of Tulipatan ) is an opéra bouffe ( a form of operetta ), in one act by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru.

Ba-ta-clan is a " chinoiserie musicale ", or operetta, in one act by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Ludovic Halévy.