Annie du Far-West is a French operetta, adapted from Annie Get Your Gun

Annie Get Your Gun (musical)

Annie Get Your Gun is a musical with lyrics and music written by Irving Berlin and a book by Herbert Fields and his sister Dorothy Fields. The story is a fictionalized version of the life of Annie Oakley , who was a sharpshooter from Ohio, and her husband, Frank Butler.The 1946 Broadway production...

by Andre Mouezy-Eon and Albert Willemetzat. It debuted at the Théâtre du Châtelet

Théâtre du Châtelet

The Théâtre du Châtelet is a theatre and opera house, located in the place du Châtelet in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.One of two theatres built on the site of a châtelet, a small castle or fortress, it was designed by Gabriel Davioud at the request of Baron Haussmann between 1860 and...

 in Paris on 19 February 1950. It starred Marcel Merkès

Marcel Merkès

Marcel Merkès , was a French tenor operetta singer.Merkès was born in Bordeaux. After receiving several prizes in singing at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, he started at the age of 22 years at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in the role of Des Grieux in Manon, an opera by Jules Massenet...

 and Lily Fayol

Lily Fayol

Lily Fayol was a French singer.The artistic career of Lily Fayol began shortly before World War II...

 and has been described as "a production that featured live elephants and that transformed Tamiris's Native American choreography into an African-American boogie-woogie". It ran successfully for over a year. It was produced at the Volksoper in Vienna from 27 February 1957.