La Fille de Madame Angot
Music by Charles Lecocq · libretto by Louis François Clairville · premiered 1872
La Fille de Madame Angot (French pronunciation: [la fij də madam ɑ̃ɡo]; Madame Angot's Daughter) is an opéra comique in three acts by Charles Lecocq with words by Clairville, Paul Siraudin and Victor Koning. It was premiered in Brussels in December 1872 and soon became a success in Paris, London, New York and across continental Europe. Along with Robert Planquette's Les Cloches de Corneville, La Fille de Madame Angot was the most successful work of the French-language musical theatre in the last three decades of the 19th century, and outperformed other noted international hits such as H.M.S. Pinafore and Die Fledermaus. The opera depicts the romantic exploits of Clairette, a young Parisian florist, engaged to one man but in love with another, and up against a richer and more powerful rival for the latter's attentions. Unlike some more risqué French comic operas of the era, the plot of La Fille de Madame Angot proved exportable to more strait-laced countries without the need for extensive rewriting, and Lecocq's score was received with enthusiasm wherever it was played. Although few other works by Lecocq have remained in the general operatic repertory, La Fille de Madame Angot is still revived from time to time.
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About the Composer
Alexandre Charles Lecocq (French pronunciation: [alɛksɑ̃dʁ ʃaʁl ləkɔk]; 3 June 1832 – 24 October 1918) 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 success in the 1870s and early 1880s, before the changing musical fashions of the late 19th century made his style of composition less popular. His few serious works include the opera Plutus (1886), which was not a success, and the ballet Le Cygne (1899). His only piece to survive in the regular modern operatic repertory is his 1872 opéra comique La Fille de Madame Angot (Mme Angot's Daughter). Others of his more than forty…
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Other Operas by Charles Lecocq
- Fleur-de-Thé (1868)
- Giroflé-Girofla (1874)
- La Petite Mariée (1875)
- Kosiki (1876)
- La Marjolaine (1877)
- La Camargo (1878)
- Ali-Baba (1887)
- L'Égyptienne (1890)