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List of operas and operettas by Emmanuel Chabrier

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This is a List of operas and operettas by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894).

List

Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre Notes
Jean Hunyade opera 4 acts Henri Fouquier composed 1867, incomplete, only 62 pages of manuscript survive, fragments used in Gwendoline and Briséïs
Le service obligatoire (with Jules Costé and René de Boisdeffre) opérette bouffe 3 acts Marion, Henri Meilhac, Fournier-Sarloveze 21 December 1872 Paris, Cercle de l'Union artistique score lost
Fisch-Ton-Kan opéra bouffe 1 act Paul Verlaine and probably Lucien Viotti, after Thomas Sauvage and Gabriel de Lurieu's Fich-Tong-Khan ou L'orphelin de la Tartarie 31 March 1875 Paris, Cercle de l'Union Artistique composed 1863–1864, incomplete
L'étoile opéra bouffe 3 acts Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo 28 November 1877 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Le Sabbat opéra comique 1 act Paul Armand Silvestre composed 1877, incomplete, only some pages survive
La Girondine opéra Jules Claretie composed 1878, lost or transferred to Les muscadins
Une éducation manquée opérette 1 act Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo 1 May 1879 Paris, Cercle de la Presse
Les muscadins opéra 4 acts Jules Claretie and Paul Armand Silvestre composed 1880, incomplete, only certain numbers survive in manuscript
Gwendoline opéra 3 acts Catulle Mendès 10 April 1886 Brussels, La Monnaie
Le roi malgré lui opéra comique 3 acts Émile de Najac and Paul Burani, revised by Jean Richepin, after Marguerite-Louise Virginie Ancelot's Le roi malgré lui 18 May 1887 Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart)
Briséïs, or Les amants de Corinthe drame lyrique 3 acts Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël, after Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth 13 January 1897 Paris, Concerts Lamoureux composed 1888–91, Act 1 complete, some sketches for Act 2 and themes in manuscript
Vaucochard et fils Ier opérette Paul Verlaine and Lucien Viotti 22 April 1941 Paris, Salle de l'Ancien Conservatoire composed 1864, incomplete, only four surviving numbers

References

Notes
  1. Delage, Roger. Emmanuel Chabrier. Fayard, Paris, 1999. Catalogue des oeuvres, pp. 685–715
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