Le pont des soupirs
Videos
Le pont des soupirs is an opéra bouffe set in Venice, by Jacques Offenbach, first performed in Paris in 1861. The French libretto was written by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy. Plays, including me
Jacques Offenbach by Nadar, c. 1860s
Le pont des Soupirs, Venice (The Bridge of Sighs)
Cover of score of 4-act version
Jean-Michel Ribes
Videos
Jean-Michel Ribes is a French playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, film maker and actor. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point.
Le pont des soupirs
…was at St James's Theatre in 1872 as The Bridge of Sighs, and a year later it was seen at the Carltheater in Vienna. More recently a production by Jean-Michel Ribes at the Théâtre de Paris (with tour and broadcast) in 1987-88 was nominated for a Molière Award. Offenbach biographer Alexander Faris notes similarities…
Jean-Michel Ribes during the 2014 Molière Award