BERLIN — The composer Jacques Offenbach captured the streets of mid-19th-century Paris like no other. But while he produced about 130 scores for the stage, his profile is often reduced to a spirited ...

The George Gershwin of France’s Second Empire was mutton-chop-whiskered Jacques Offenbach. Stuffy politicians, high-toned artists, bombastic literati winced at his satirical songs. All Paris, from the ...

Jacques Offenbach has written 25 shows including La Belle Hélène (Composer), La Jolie Parfumeuse (Composer), The Gay Parisienne (Composer), Orpheus in the Underworld (Composer), Madame Favart ...

Admired yet underestimated: that was the fate of German-French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach, who died 140 ago. Here's a look back at his work. Dancers holding up high the seams of their frilly ...

Jaques Offenbach has written 9 shows including La Belle Hélène (Composer), La Périchole (Composer), Les Deux Aveugles (Composer), Going it Blind (Composer), Barbe-Bleue (Composer), Lischen et ...

Operagoers got a flashback to 1998 at the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday. It was the beginning of the second act Operagoers got a flashback to 1998 at the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday. It was ...

This week, Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the maestro of the Cancan and much more besides, Jacques Offenbach. Monday - The Mozart of the Champs-Elysées This week opens with Donald ...

Jacques Offenbach was a master of entertaining music and the inventor of the operetta. His 200th birthday is being celebrated in 2019, and nowhere more than in the city of his birth, Cologne, Germany.

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Donald Macleod on Jacques Offenbach - maestro of the Cancan and much more besides. Today’s episode we meet Offenbach on the brink of defeat – when he decides to launch his own theatre company, ‘Les ...