The Opéra Comique has stood, in one form or another, on the discreet Place Boieldieu in central Paris since 1783, making it one of the oldest performance sites in the city. Its current home, a ...

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In 1792-1793, between Lodoïska and Eliza, Luigi Cherubini wrote another opéra-comique, the three-act Koukourgi. This work was never performed ...