Ra Comique

Le Toréador
... L'accord parfait (The Toreador, or The Perfect Agreement) is an opéra comique in two acts by the French composer Adolphe Adam with a libretto by Thomas-Marie-François Sauvage ... It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on May 18, 1849 ... It was a huge success and the work regularly appeared in the repertoire of the Opéra-Comique until 1869 ...

Mignon - Performance History
... The first performance was at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 17 November 1866 ... The original version of Mignon for the Opéra-Comique had to have a happy ending, since at that time in Paris tragic operas in French were exclusively reserved for the Opéra ... More recently, in 1986, the original opéra comique version with soprano Cynthia Clarey as Mignon was revived for a production at the Wexford Festival ...

Opéras Comiques - History - The Revolution and The 19th Century
... was changed to the Opéra-Comique, but it no longer had a monopoly on performing operas with spoken dialogue and faced serious rivalry from the Théâtre Feydeau, which also produced works in the opéra ... Opéra comique generally became more dramatic and less comic and began to show the influence of musical Romanticism ... The chief composers at the Opéra-Comique during the Revolutionary era were Étienne Méhul, Nicolas Dalayrac, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Henri Montan Berton ...

French Opera - The Growth of Opéra Comique
... Opéra comique began life in the early eighteenth century, not in the prestigious opera houses or aristocratic salons, but in the theatres of the annual Paris fairs ... institution called the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique ... mentioned above, was a major turning-point for opéra comique ...