La fauvette du temple
Music by André Messager · libretto by Paul Burani · premiered 1885 · at Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques
La fauvette du temple (French pronunciation: [la fovɛt dy tɑ̃pl]) is an opéra comique in three acts of 1885, with music by André Messager and a French libretto by Paul Burani and Eugène Humbert. The libretto bears some similarities to the outline of a vaudeville in three acts by the Cogniard brothers, La cocarde tricolore - épisode de la guerre d'Alger, seen at the old Folies-Dramatiques on 19 March 1831. Traubner describes the opera as "a militaristic, patriotic affair with Algerian scenes". It was first performed at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques on 17 November 1885 and ran for 150 performances.
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About the Composer
André Charles Prosper Messager (French: [mɛsaʒe]; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) 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. Messager took up the piano as a small child and later studied composition with, among others, Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. He became a major figure in the musical life of Paris and later London, both as a conductor and a composer. Many of his…
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Other Operas by André Messager
- Isoline
- L'amour masqué
- La Basoche (1514)
- Fortunio (1835)
- François les bas-bleus (1883)
- La Béarnaise (1885)
- Béatrice (1914)
- La petite fonctionnaire (1921)