Marie Geistinger
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Marie Charlotte Cäcilie Geistinger was an Austrian actress and operatic soprano, known as the "Queen of Operetta". She frequently appeared in works by Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss II and Franz vo
Marie Geistinger as Boulotte (1866)
Portrait of Marie Geistinger by August Wilhelm Rösler
Jacques Offenbach
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Jacques Offenbach was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. H
Offenbach by Nadar (c. 1870s)
Offenbach in 1846
Offenbach as a young cello virtuoso: drawing by Alexandre Laemlein from 1850
The composer-conductor caricatured, 1858