Le pont des soupirs
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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
Ludovic Halévy
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Ludovic Halévy was a French author and playwright, known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on the libretti for Georges Bizet's Carmen and comic operas by Jacques Offenbach, including La belle
Le pont des soupirs
…opéra bouffe (or operetta) 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 melodramas, set in Venice were quite common in Paris in the early 19th century; the libretto, by the successful team from Orphée aux…
Halévy early in his career
Halévy later in his career.
Poster for the première of Carmen