List of operas and operettas by Delibes

This is list of operas and operettas written by the French composer

Composer

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Léo Delibes
Léo Delibes
Clément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage...

(1836–1891).

List

Title	\|Genre	\|Subdivisions	\|Libretto	\|Première date	\|Place, theatre
La princesse Ravigote	opéra comique Opéra comique Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections...	3 acts		lost
Le Don Juan suisse	opérette	4 acts		lost
Le roi des montagnes	opéra comique	3 acts		unfinished
Deux sous de charbon ou Le suicide de bigorneau	opérette (asphyxie lyrique)	1 act	Jules Moinaux	9 February 1856	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... , Folies-Nouvelles Théâtre Déjazet The Théâtre Dejazet is a theatre on the boulevard du Temple in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. It was originally founded in 1770 by Comte d'Artois who later was crowned Charles X, but it was then closed down and not reopened until 1851...
Deux vieilles gardes	opérette	1 act	Théodore Ferdinand Vallon de Villeneuve and Alphonse Lemonnier	8 August 1856	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens The Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens is a Parisian theatre which was founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta. The current theatre is located in the 2nd arrondissement at 4 rue Monsigny with an entrance at the back at 65 Passage Choiseul. In...
Six demoiselles à marier	opérette	1 act	Ernest Jaime and Adolphe Choler	12 November 1856	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Maître Griffard	opéra comique	1 act	Eugène Mestépès and Adolphe Jaime	3 October 1857	Paris, Théâtre Lyrique Théâtre Lyrique The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century . The company was founded in 1847 as the Opéra-National by the French composer Adolphe Adam and renamed Théâtre Lyrique in 1852...
La fille du golfe	opéra comique	1 act		composed 1859, but unperformed?
L’omelette à la Follembuche	opérette	1 act	Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel	8 June 1859	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Monsieur de Bonne-Étoile	opéra comique	1 act	Philippe Gille Philippe Gille Philippe Gille was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé.-Librettos by Philippe Gille:...	4 February 1860	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Les musiciens de l’orchestre (with Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr.... , Erlanger, and Hignard)	opérette	2 acts	Philippe Auguste Pittaud de Forges and A. Bourdois	25 January 1861	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Les eaux d'Ems	comedy	1 act	Hector-Jonathan Crémieux Hector-Jonathan Crémieux Hector-Jonathan Crémieux was a French librettist and playwright. His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, known in English as Orpheus in the Underworld.... and Ludovic Halévy Ludovic Halévy Ludovic Halévy was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas.-Biography:Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris...	Summer 1862	Bad Ems Bad Ems Bad Ems is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the county seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is well known as a bathing resort on the river Lahn... , Kursaal
Mon ami Pierrot	opérette	1 act	Lockroy (Joseph Philippe Simon)	July 1862	Bad Ems, Kursaal
Le jardinier et son seigneur	opéra comique	1 act	Michel Carré Michel Carré Michel Carré was a prolific French librettist.He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse and plays before turning to writing libretti. His libretto for Mirette was never performed in France but was later performed in English adaptation in... and Théodore Barrière	1 May 1863	Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
Le tradition	prologue en verse	1 act	H Derville	5 January 1864	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Grande nouvelle	opérette	1 act	A Boisgonnier	composed 1864, but unperformed?
Le serpent à Plumes	farce	1 act	Philippe Gille and Cham (Amédée de Noé Amédée de Noé Charles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham was a French caricaturist and lithographer. Raised by a family who wished him to attend a polytechnic school, he instead attended painting workshops by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist, taking on the pseudonym "Cham"... )	16 December 1864	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Le boeuf Apis	opéra comique	2 acts	Philippe Gille and Eugène Furpille	15 April 1865	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Malbrough s’en va-t-en guerre (4th act only, together with Georges Bizet Georges Bizet Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a... , E. Jonas and I. Legouix)	opérette	4 acts	Paul Siraudin and William-Bertrand Busnach	13 December 1867	Paris, Théâtre de l'Athénée
L’écossais de Chatou	opérette	1 act	Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime	16 January 1869	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
La cour du roi Pétaud	opéra comique	3 acts	Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime	24 April 1869	Paris, Théâtre des Variétés Théâtre des Variétés The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1975.-History:...
Fleur-de-lys		1 act	Henry Brougham Farnie Henry Brougham Farnie Henry Brougham Farnie , often called H. B. Farnie, was a British librettist and adapter of French operettas and an author...	5 April 1873	London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , The Royal Philharmonic Theatre
Le roi l’a dit	opéra comique	3 acts	Edmond Gondinet Edmond Gondinet Edmond Gondinet was a French playwright and librettist. This author, nearly forgotten today, produced forty plays of which several were successful...	24 May 1873	Paris, Opéra-Comique Opéra-Comique The Opéra-Comique is a Parisian opera company, which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with, and for a time took the name of its chief rival the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and was also called the...
Jean de Nivelle Jean de Nivelle (opera) Jean de Nivelle is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. It premiered on 6 March 1880 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with the French tenor, Jean-Alexandre Talazac in the title role...	opéra Opera Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...	3 acts	Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille	8 March 1880	Paris, Opéra-Comique
Lakmé Lakmé Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. Delibes wrote the score during 1881–82 with its first performance on 14 April 1883 at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Set in British India in the mid 19th century, Lakmé is based on the 1880 novel...	opéra	3 acts	Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti	14 April 1883	Paris, Opéra-Comique
Kassya (unfinished, completed by Jules Massenet Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas... )	drame lyrique	4 acts	Henri Meilhac Henri Meilhac Henri Meilhac , was a French dramatist and opera librettist.-Biography:Meilhac was born in Paris in 1831. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront... and Philippe Gille	24 March 1893	Paris, Opéra-Comique

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