Les Cent Vierges
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Les Cent Vierges is an opérette in three acts, with music by Charles Lecocq and a libretto by Clairville, Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru. It was first produced at the Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes,
Poster for a 1910 revival
Jeanne Thibault as Gabrielle and Eugène Paravicini as Anatole in Paris revival, 1885
Thibault with Paravicini as the disguised Anatole
Charles Lecocq
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Alexandre Charles Lecocq was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent successor to Jacques Offenbach in this sphere, and enjoyed considerable succes
Les Cent Vierges
…Les Cent Vierges (The Hundred Maidens or The Hundred Virgins) is an opérette in three acts, with music by Charles Lecocq and a libretto by Clairville, Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru. It was first produced at the Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Brussels, on 16 March 1872…
Jacques Offenbach
Scene from La Fille de Madame Angot, Paris, 1873
Le Cœur et la Main, one of Lecocq's successes in the 1880s
Giroflé-Girofla, 1874