Les noces d'Olivette is an opéra comique in three acts composed by Edmond Audran, with a libretto by Alfred Duru and Henri Charles Chivot. The farcical romance story concerns Olivette, who loves Valentine but is engaged to a sea captain, who she refuses to marry. Valentine secretly weds Olivette, the captain declares that Olivette is his rightful bride, Valentine is arrested, Olivette is disowned, but eventually her marriage to Valentine is upheld.
1879 illustration
Achille Edmond Audran was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas.
Photo of Audran by Pierre Petit, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Poster for the 1884 production of Le grand mogol in Paris.
Sheet music for the gavotte from La cigale et la fourmi