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Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Henri Meilhac (Librettist), Ludovic HaleIvy (Librettist)Biblio.com

Les brigands: Opera-bouffe en 3 Actes

1870ref. SP39-0142-14198Colombier 1870. Hardcover. Good. Libretto in French. 1870 Colombier Paris 7 1/2 x 11 inches tall beige cloth hardcover appears recently rebound with refreshed marbled endpapers 4 371 pp. Intermittent light foxing throughout especially to front and rear prelims. Moderate soiling and edge-chipping to front prelims including title page which has a blue Columbier publisher's stamp at the bottom. Moderate to heavy edge chipping to last 10 pages especially lower tips not impacting text. Otherwise a very good copy of this scarce imprint handsomely bound. ~SP39~ 4.0P Les brigands The Bandits is an opera bouffe or operetta by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. Meilhac and Halevy's libretto lampoons both serious drama Schiller's play The Robbers and opera comique Fra Diavolo and Les diamants de la couronne by Auber. The plot is cheerfully amoral in its presentation of theft as a basic principle of society rather than as an aberration. As Falsacappa the brigand chieftain notes: 'Everybody steals according to their position in society.' The piece premiered in Paris in 1869 and has received periodic revivals in France and elsewhere both in French and in translation. Les brigands has a more substantial plot than many Offenbach operettas and integrates the songs more completely into the story. The forces of law and order are represented by the bumbling carabinieri whose exaggerated attire delighted the Parisian audience during the premiere. In addition to policemen financiers receive satiric treatment. The satire counterpoints lively musical romps and the frequent use of Italian and Spanish rhythms; 'Soyez pitoyables' is a true canon and each act finale is a well-developed whole. A 1983 New York Times article theorized that the music of the piece influenced Bizet in writing Carmen and noted that the librettists for this work supplied Bizet's libretto but standard Offenbach references do not mention any such influence. Colombier hardcover

Flamingo Books · Estados Unidos179,95 US$≈ 160,45 €

Eric Crozier [Eric John Crozier] (1914-1994), opera producer and librettist, closely associated with Benjamin Britten:Biblio.com

Eric Crozier opera producer and librettist closely associated with Benjamin Britten. Typed Letter Signed to ‘Mr. Catry’ reminiscing about his first two productions: Smetana’s ‘Bartered Bride’ and 'a world-wide event' - Britten’s ‘Peter Grimes’.

ref. 2518810 January 1993 with address label of ‘ERIC CROZIER OBE / 4 THE TIMBERYARD / GREAT GLEMHAM / SAXMUNDHAM / SUFFOLK’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p foolscap 8vo. In fair condition lightly aged and creased. Folded twice for postage. The address is printed on a small golden label affixed at the top left corner. Addressed to ‘Dear Mr. Catry’ and signed ‘With all best wishes - and thank you for writing! / Sincerely / Eric Crozier.’ He asks him to forgive a typed letter as he is ‘convalescing from a heart-attack and still not very good at hand-writing. / The opera I must enjoyed producing was I suppose my very first - Smetana’s THE BARTERED BRIDE in 1943 in a new English version made by Joan Cross and myself which stayed in the repertoire at Sadler’s Wells and Covent Garden for twenty years.’ He recalls that it was first staged ‘during the black-out to audiences starved of colour and gaiety: our first audience included the Czech government in exile - President Benes Jan Masaryk and others - and on the second night they took the whole theatre for their fellow-countrymen to see what all Czechs regarded as their national opera’. The rest of the letter concerns his next production Britten’s ‘Peter Grimes’ ‘a world-wide event’ premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1945 ‘and one year later I staged the American premiere with Leonard Bernstein as conductor at Tanglewood. I worked with Britten and Montagu Slater the librettist throughout the writing and composition of that great work which has had I would guess a greater international success than any other English opera all through the past fifty years. It is still being staged - Rostropovich will conduct performances of it at the Barbican this March.’ 10 January 1993, with address label of ‘ERIC CROZIER, OBE / 4 THE TIMBERYARD / GREAT GLEMHAM / SAXMUNDHAM / SUFFOLK’. unknown

Richard M. Ford Ltd · Reino Unido180,00 GBP≈ 214,21 €

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