Les p'tites Michu
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Les p'tites Michu is an opérette in three acts, with music by André Messager and words by Albert Vanloo and Georges Duval. The piece is set in Paris in the years following the French Revolution and depicts the complications ensuing after the identities of two girls become confused in their infancy.
Poster for first production, 1897
Odette Dulac (Blanche-Marie) and Alice Bonheur (Marie-Blanche), 1897
Victor Regnard (Michu), Mme Vigouroux (Mme Michu) and Maurice Lamy (Aristide), 1897
Act 3 in original 1897 production
André Messager
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André Charles Prosper Messager was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886) and opéra comique Véronique (1898) have had lasting success; Les p'tites Michu (1897) and Monsieur Beaucaire (1919) were also popular internationally.
Four of Messager's musical influences: clockwise from top left, Saint-Saëns; Fauré; Gigout; Chabrier
Poster for François les bas-bleus, 1883. The names of both the composers are in small print just below the title.
Scene from La Basoche, 1890
Poster for Les P'tites Michu, 1897