Barbe-bleue
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Barbe-bleue (Bluebeard) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, in one act by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
It was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris on 5 February 1866.
[edit] Roles
| Premiere | ||
|---|---|---|
| Barbe-Bleue : | tenor | José Dupuis |
| Alvarez | tenor | Edouard Hamburger |
| Boulotte | soprano | Hortense Schneider |
| Clémentine | mezzo-soprano | Aline Duval |
| Fleurette/Hermia | soprano | Georgette Vernet |
| Le comte Oscar | bass | Pierre-Eugène Grenier |
| Popolani | bass | Henri Couder |
| Le roi Bobêche | tenor | Kopp |
| Saphir | tenor | Hittemans |
| Héloïse | de Géraudon | |
| Eléonore | Martin | |
| Isaure | Gabrielle | |
| Rosalinde | Amélie | |
| Blanche | Legrand | |
| Le greffier | Horton | |
| First peasant | Béatrix | |
| Second peasant | Léonie | |
| First page | Jenny | |
| Second page | Taillefer | |
| A child | Mathilde | |
[edit] External links
- http://www.boosey.com/downloads/BarbeBleue.pdf Libretto as originally submitted for censorship.
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