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THE STORY: The place is the Opera Comique, in Paris, in 1875, at the first performance of Bizet's new opera, Carmen . All the best people are there but, as the

Opéra-comique, like grand opéra, a specifically French genre of opera, emerged from the political changes and intellectual discussion that played a recurrent

Lyric theater in ancien régime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera (tragédie

First published in 1986, this major study in English explores Grétry and opéra-comique between 1768 and 1791.