| Description |
183 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-176) and index. |
| Contents |
Overture and beginners. And in the beginning was Adam ; A daughter gone to the bad ; Jeannette and her long-running marriage ; A loony -- Act I, The age of gold . 'The little Jew' ; The conquest of Paris ; 'The Mozart of the Champs-Elysées' ; Orpheus goes down to the Underworld ; Friday nights with Jacques ; From Helen of Troy to native bitch ; 'Very nice, Liverpool!' ; The last illusion -- Act II, The age of respectability. The cripple and Dr Miracle ; The father of Madame Angot's daughter ; A little Duke ; Old friends and a parrot ; To end with Ali Baba -- Entr'acte : higher fliers -- Act III, A late flowering ; Miss Eliot's bottom ; Gallimaufry ; Success in blue stockings ; A second marriage ; Véronique and the battle of Pelléas ; Some very Parisian talents -- Act IV, Decline and fall. Reynaldo from Venezuela ; The boobs of Tirésias. |
| Subject |
Operetta -- France.
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Operetta. |
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France. |
| Added Title |
Rise and fall of French operetta |
| ISBN |
0903443287 : £7.95 |
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