单词 | Offenbach |
例句 | Notwithstanding the universal admiration for Offenbach’s comic operettas, the opulence of the Parisian experience of opera and its position in society still meant it was a luxury. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They practiced the Offenbach and the Barber and Mozart’s Twenty-fifth with blank faces. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Offenbach - the noms de plume, in fact, of two German Jews originally named Jacob - took the Paris opera world by storm in the 1830s and ’40s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His stories later inspired Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” Offenbach’s opera “Tales of Hoffmann” and much of Freud’s essay “The Uncanny.” Review | Dispatch from a ‘horror’ convention: It began in a dark, candlelit room . . . 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z City Opera, which opened its season at BAM with Thomas Ades' "Powder Her Face," then moves to the City Center in April for two more productions: Rossini's "Moses in Egypt" and Offenbach's "La Perichole." Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z The opera, left unfinished by Offenbach, is performed here in the bastardized version cobbled together after his death, which was essentially the only choice at the time. Critic?s Notebook: Sony Classical Releases 4 New Historic Met Opera CDs 2012-01-21T01:25:23Z He said he is proud to put Offenbach in the Salzburg “pantheon, where he belongs.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The evening’s music — Charles Barker, David LaMarche and Ormsby Wilkins shared the conducting duties — included superb pieces by Debussy, Delibes, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Offenbach and Prokofiev. American Ballet Theater Holds Its Spring Gala 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Offenbach, from an earlier era, is a different flavor of operetta. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The Offenbach scene stars a dream team of Ms. Fleming and Susan Graham singing the famous Barcarolle. Critic’s Notebook: How Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera 2012-08-16T21:49:50Z Conductor Yves Abel and the orchestra coped admirably and expeditiously with Offenbach’s score, which ranges from frothy operetta to grand opera in style. ‘Tales of Hoffmann’: Speight Jenkins goes out on a high note 2014-05-05T16:26:58Z An earlier version of this article misspelled part of the name of the restaurant where Jonas Offenbach is now chef de cuisine. Village Den, From Antoni Porowski of ‘Queer Eye,’ Opens in West Village 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Weather, of course, is always a factor in outdoor opera, and rain and lightning forced the cancellation of Friday evening’s performance of “Songbird,” an adaptation of Offenbach’s “La Périchole.” Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z This Offenbach opera has long been a Levine specialty, and he led an elegant and insightful performance. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z This funky-fab "Red Shoes" is suffused with original music and snippets of Philip Glass, Offenbach and Jurassic 5. Musicals from movies, TV, history try to find footing on slippery Broadway 2010-12-18T01:22:59Z The specter of Bluebeard has also inspired operas by Bela Bartok and Jacques Offenbach and turns up in an untitled 1917 sonnet from the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Film: ?Bluebeard? Director?s Take on Dark Folk Tale 2010-03-24T22:31:00Z Inside the casino, the guests were plunged into the intoxicating, expressionistic microverse of Offenbach's old opera. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z Singing with a bright, pure soprano, she recalls the mechanical Olympia from Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann.” Review: ‘Ride the Cyclone,’ About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Such time traveling allows Mr. LaChiusa to weave witty period homages into a melancholy, swirling, key-shifting score, with nods to Offenbach, Glenn Miller, Irving Berlin and disco anthems, among many others. | 'Hello Again': Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish 2011-03-21T02:01:03Z MUNICH, Germany — The Bavarian State Opera steered clear of controversy with a popular new production of Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann." Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z Mr. Kosky described Offenbach as “a wonderful miasma of different theatrical styles.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z She is scheduled for her English National Opera debut next fall in Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.” Transgender baritone Lucia Lucas makes US debut 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z In fact, the great Orpheus work from that era was Offenbach’s delightfully witty and irreverent operetta “Orpheus in the Underworld,” which pokes fun at the obsession. Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z After working as a teacher in Offenbach and at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, he became a production manager on the TV series Lindenstrasse. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z Offenbach died before the opera was completed, and different stagings include different material, arranged in different orders. Review: ‘Turandot’ and ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann,’ Spectacle and Substance at Bregenz Festival 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z She made less impact as the courtesan Giulietta, but blame Jones for concocting an unconvincing ending for this scene, which Offenbach left unfinished at his death. Munich's hit 'Hoffmann,' far-out 'Fidelio' 2011-11-28T14:46:10Z In an interview, the American musicologist Jacek Blaszkiewicz called Offenbach “the prototypical European satirist. I think European audiences still, to an extent, kind of get the joke.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z After a career in comic opera, Offenbach saw “Hoffmann” as his chance, finally, to show he was capable of writing a serious work. Music Review: San Francisco Offers Stravinsky and Offenbach 2013-06-24T21:37:07Z Mr. Blaszkiewicz, the musicologist, even suggested that Styx can be seen as a stand-in for Emperor Napoleon III, a supporter of Offenbach. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Yes, it offers two good chunks of opera — “Casta diva” from Bellini’s “Norma” and the Barcarolle from Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.” Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The project should be encouraged, though the company might perhaps consider a stronger approach to Offenbach than this. La Périchole – review 2012-06-20T17:20:36Z In the genteel, cultivated and fashionable crowd, Manet painted himself and his friends: the poets Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, and composer Jacques Offenbach. How Hugo and Manet unveiled Paris's poor and privileged faces 2013-01-26T19:30:01Z There’s a small theater where Sarah Bernhardt and Offenbach played in the 19th century. A Peek Inside Jean-Louis Remilleux’s Chateau and French History 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Written in 1858, “Orpheus” was Offenbach’s first large-scale operetta; the genre had been enabled, by a change in theatrical regulations, to expand to multiple acts and larger casts. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z She was joined by Ms. Leonard for a beloved duet, the “Barcarolle” from Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann.” Review: Carnegie Hall Turns 125, With Brass and Other Fanfare 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Jacques Offenbach never finished “The Tales of Hoffmann,” his magic-infused, dark comic opera inspired by the work of the Prussian fantasy writer E.T.A. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Offenbach also gives us a saner view, by way of Nicklausse, Hoffmann’s loving, poetic muse, who patiently attends him as he pursues his women and leads him back to his typewriter in the epilogue. Music Review: Is It Traditional or Modern? Both, With Nods to Kafka and Fellini 2010-09-29T22:38:00Z Instead of the traditional story of the musician Orpheus, who loses his wife Eurydice then attempts to win her back from death through the power of song, Offenbach offers a cutting alternative. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Seattle Opera closes its season — also general director Speigh Jenkins’ last one with the company — with a production of the Jacques Offenbach tale about a writer and the unobtainable women in his life. Week Ahead: Maritime Festival, Cinco de Mayo, Cassandra Wilson 2014-04-30T21:25:24Z In an interview in Munich, Mr. Kosky pointed to Offenbach’s “incredibly sophisticated idea of sexual politics and gender.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Kosky’s production combines past and present, recalling Offenbach’s own mixture of mythological characters and contemporary language. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z His libretto for Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, in which the character of Public Opinion was clearly modelled on Margaret Thatcher, was performed by English National Opera. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z More recent writers have taken a milder tack, casting Offenbach as an entertainer with satirical tendencies. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z She also undertook all four heroines in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z “It was a sort of healing,” said Karin Marré-Harrak, the headmaster of a high school in the multicultural city of Offenbach. Affluent, Anxious and Almost Normal: A Journey Through Merkel’s Germany 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Boehm, who was born in Offenbach in central Germany in 1920, built more than 50 churches, many of them in his signature concrete style. Gottfried Boehm, architect of concrete churches, dies at 101 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z “Le 66” Mission Opera stages four outdoor performances of Offenbach’s one-act comic operetta. Pride Month events with Lil Nas X and Dolly lead our list of weekend culture 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z At the opening night party, I was immediately rehired for an obscure opera by Offenbach that hadn’t been performed since its premiere in Austria. Two colleagues, two continents, very different pandemics 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Instead of walking across Europe, he had walked 10 minutes from his childhood home in the western city of Offenbach. A Far-Right Terrorism Suspect With a Refugee Disguise: The Tale of Franco A. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z In Ms. Soysal’s school in Offenbach, nine in 10 children have at least one parent who emigrated to Germany. Affluent, Anxious and Almost Normal: A Journey Through Merkel’s Germany 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Dilar grew up in Offenbach, another suburb of Frankfurt, and spends time between there and the UK. Germany shooting 'a shock but not a surprise' 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Ruhl is hardly the first to give voice to Eurydice, who riotously mocks Orpheus’ pomposity in Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.” Review: At L.A. Opera, Matthew Aucoin's 'Eurydice' almost has it all 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Frankfurt prosecutors said some 170 police officers searched three apartments Tuesday in the nearby city of Offenbach and detained the men. Germany: 3 Islamists detained over suspected attack plot 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But Public Opinion, which Offenbach makes a mezzo-soprano role, tells him he has to take action and talk the gods — a gaggle of goofballs — into freeing her. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z This Sunday’s program includes performances of Mozart’s Sonata, Bach’s Chaconne and an Offenbach duet. Datebook: A show about the Santa Monica Airport at the Santa Monica Airport 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Kathryn Lewek’s performance as Eurydice in a raunchy production of Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld at the Salzburg festival has been widely praised. US soprano Kathryn Lewek accuses opera critics of body-shaming 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The most talked-about director this summer in Salzburg has been Barrie Kosky for his wondrously outlandish production of Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld.” Commentary: Placido Domingo wins a long ovation in his first concert after harassment allegations 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z In a separate incident, police in Offenbach near Frankfurt said a 44-year-old woman was shot dead in her car Friday. Frenchman arrested after son, daughter killed in Germany 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z It gets increasingly crazy and ends with everyone doing Offenbach’s famous crazy cancan. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Next season, she will make her debut with the English National Opera in Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. Trans woman to play Don Giovanni in historic moment for US opera 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The main suspects are two 31-year-old brothers from Wiesbaden and a 21-year-old man from Offenbach, near Frankfurt, all of them German citizens. World Digest: March 22, 2019 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The main suspects were a 21-year old man from Offenbach, a city near Frankfurt, and two 31-year brothers from Wiesbaden, who were associated with the Islamist Salafist community in the area, prosecutors said. German police arrest 10 people on suspicion of terror plot 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The group plans to demonstrate in Offenbach next month, when the party launches its “Jews in the AfD” section. Far-right German party’s plans for Jewish section criticized 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z The production is a dismaying, yet magnificent, overthrowing of the Offenbach typically presented as an innocuously charming wit who gave the world the light entertainment of operetta. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z Police in Offenbach, next to Frankfurt, told the dpa news agency on Wednesday that the suspect was a 48-year-old resident with Serbian citizenship. German police make arrest in kidnapping of billionaire’s son 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Another suspect, identified only as a 24-year-old student from Offenbach, was also detained, they said. German Soldier Posed as Syrian Refugee to Plan Attack, Officials Say 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Items banned under weapons and explosives laws were found in the student's home in Offenbach, near Frankfurt. German soldier posed as Syrian refugee and 'planned attack' - BBC News 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z A 24-year-old student from the soldier’s hometown of Offenbach was also arrested. Reports: German soldier planning attack arrested 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Offenbach’s “Orphée,” the first operetta and the precursor of the whole genre of music theater, is, however, an unabashed parody of the dour seriousness of mythic opera. Commentary: Where Barrie Kosky, Europe's hot opera director, wants to make his American splash 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z The police raids targeted suspected members of the Islamist scene in the cities of Frankfurt, Offenbach and Wiesbaden, in the state of Hesse. Tunisian suspect in Bardo Museum attack arrested in German raids 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Bavaria's state interior ministry said Tuesday that the 52-year-old woman died on Sunday at a hospital in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, news agency dpa reported. German authorities say a woman has died from injuries sustained in a suicide bombing last month in Istanbul 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Granted Jacques Offenbach is not in need the same boost, but he’s still a neglected composer, especially in his native Germany. Turandot and Offenbach At The Bregenz Festival 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z After enduring a series of pay cuts and with his career prospects diminishing by the day, Andreas Ketselides moved his family from Athens to Offenbach just outside the German city of Frankfurt last year. How do Greeks in Germany feel amid the debt crisis? - BBC News 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The student teacher's death in Offenbach last November stunned Germany. Germany Tugce death: Teenager given youth custody - BBC News 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z Two years ago, Darmstadt was relegated to the fourth-tier competition but was reinstated to the third division when a nearby rival from Offenbach lost its license because of poor finances. Darmstadt returns to Bundesliga after 33 years 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Tugce Albayrak was beaten by one of the men in the city of Offenbach and was in a coma for two weeks before her life support was switched off on Friday. Funeral for hero who tackled bullies 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Ms Albayrak intervened when she heard cries for help from the toilet of a fast food restaurant in the town of Offenbach, near Frankfurt, where two girls were being harassed, German media report. Thousands mourn German 'role model' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Tugce Albayrak was attacked outside a fast food restaurant in Offenbach, near Frankfurt on 15th November, after defending two women from a group of men who were reportedly intimidating them. Calls to Honour German Student Who Died Defending Women Bild newspaper published the video of the 15 November attack, outside a fast-food restaurant in the town of Offenbach, near Frankfurt. German video reveals fatal attack 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Before Sunday's "civil courage" vigil on Oranienplatz in Berlin, tributes were paid in Offenbach, with people holding signs which read "Thank you, Tugce". Germans honour slain 'role model' 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z A stretch of the A3 highway near Offenbach, outside Frankfurt, was also closed. WWII bomb found near Frankfurt airport 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z In the piece on Offenbach, the writer tries to depict Offenbach’s character by describing the composer as constantly interrupting the interview to talk to and about singers he is auditioning for his next operetta. Press Adds ‘What if?’ to Five W’s in France 2013-08-29T00:21:21Z But Doric, which is based in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, said Monday that it was in talks with several potential leasing customers for the A380 jets, which it would start to receive in 2016. Big Jets May Be Back in Demand With Economy 2013-06-17T18:18:55Z Kickers Offenbach, the club where he was president for 12 years, said on Friday that the 58-year-old collapsed at his home near Frankfurt and was revived by his wife before the arrival of the ambulance. Former Germany striker Dieter Müller in coma following heart attack 2012-10-05T15:19:54Z The best known and the most generally used are the Offenbach and the Berlin, both very much alike except for a slight difference in the edge. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z I never alluded again in our conversations to Offenbach and Lecocq, and never more did I try to accompany the old gentleman to the theatre. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z I wasn’t the only one scratching my head after seeing Richard Jones’s new production of Offenbach’s “The Tales of Hoffmann” at English National Opera. Kinky Brothel Games Intrigue in ENO’s ‘Hoffmann’: London Stage 2012-02-15T14:58:22Z “There’s always a reason why labor representatives are pressed to hold back,” said Schoenau, who checks the quality of axle components for cars in Offenbach. German Workers Demand 6.5% Raise as Siemens Predicts Recession 2012-02-07T01:45:39Z The suspect in Offenbach was released while police were still investigating the three men from Bonn, the former West German capital. Germany detains four men suspected of unification day plot 2011-10-02T16:05:50Z The Offenbach knife is narrower and ground more to a square point than the Berlin knife, the edge of which forms a sort of half right-angle to the blade. Practical Bookbinding 2012-04-02T02:00:23.047Z Gloves for export are extensively made in W�rttemberg, and Offenbach and Aschaffenburg are renowned for fancy leather wares, such as purses, satchels and the like. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z Many Offenbach residents are recent immigrants who do not speak German or lack other skills. I.H.T. Special Report: Global Agenda: To Limit Turmoil, Focus Turns to Fighting Joblessness 2011-09-22T03:00:10Z It is related that he once took part in an amateur performance of Offenbach's "Belle H�l�ne," and interpreted the character of Calchas! Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z A police spokesman in Cologne, Christoph Gilles, told Reuters that three of the men, aged 22 to 27, were detained in Bonn while police in Hesse state said a fourth man was detained in Offenbach. Germany detains four men suspected of unification day plot 2011-10-02T16:05:50Z Truly, to them, as to the Sabreur of Offenbach, nothing is sacred. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z It really seemed strange, in the heart of the wilderness, where a few months before no white man had ever put his foot, to hear the tones of Strauss or Offenbach. Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) 2011-06-15T02:00:22.810Z I may here remind the reader that Offenbach began life as a composer of serious music. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z A detail to note is that the orchestra was conducted by Offenbach. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z They reached Offenbach, and could see Frankfort in the distance silhouetted against the sky. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z I prefer Wagner to squills, and, compared to the delights of Mozart, Hayden, and Offenbach, those of paregoric are nit.” The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews 2011-02-18T03:00:20.773Z Whether it was actually better than Offenbach, I am not competent to affirm, but I can answer for it that for all except that charming but risible lady it was a great deal more serious. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z Sir Michael was not only peculiarly sensitive, but also remarkably vindictive; and the engagement of Offenbach at a theatre where he was officiating would certainly have caused him no little resentment. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z There is a monastery at Offenbach where they have ice throughout the year. Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service 2011-02-04T03:00:18.850Z Then last week the hosts of football's greatest sporting spectacle were reduced to playing in the near empty Kickers Offenbach Stadium in Germany. World Cup watch ... 34 days to go 2010-05-07T08:00:00Z A very well-known example is to be found in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis I'll submit to hear Wagner all the days of my life, intensified one day in the week by Offenbach, if the first bars do not prove that the rest is at least worth hearing. The Children of the World Offenbach was destined not to be appreciated as a serious composer, though in one of his works, the little-known Contes d'Hoffmann, there is much music which, if not learned or profound, is at least artistic. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z A peculiar offspring of the Second Empire are the brilliant burlesques of Offenbach, which owed at least part of their brilliancy to the librettos composed for them by MM. A Short History of French Literature The piece which was played in honor of the peasants was one of Offenbach's frivolous operas, in which the ladies appear in the very scantiest of costumes. Black Diamonds Bluebeard was no more a creation of Perrault or of Offenbach than Don Juan was a creation of Mozart or of Molière. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern A feeling of repugnance overpowered him, which only increased, when on reaching the entry outside of the first floor rooms he heard a girl's voice singing one of Offenbach's favorite airs. The Children of the World Such an official I never remember to have read of, though I have seen the like, from across the footlights and the orchestra, evolving in similar figures to the strains of Offenbach. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) The collaborateurs did not confine themselves to furnishing words for M. Offenbach's music, but attempted the prose drama frequently and with success, Froufrou being their most important work in this way. A Short History of French Literature “This other name was Jacques Offenbach,” adds Wagner. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians This was succeeded by Offenbach’s “Blind Beggars,” who were admirably personated by Mr. Du Maurier and Mr. Harold Power. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. More minutes had gone by in the suave swinging of their steps to Offenbach's somnolent measures when she asked, abruptly, "Do you skate?" The Side Of The Angels A Novel Their favorite airs are waltzes and native dances, with not a little of the Offenbach spirit in them. Due South or Cuba Past and Present It was all so like a situation out of an opéra bouffe of Offenbach. The Vagrant Duke He with Charles L�cocq won the Offenbach prize for the best operetta while Bizet was as yet a youth, and from that time his art gained in strength and beauty. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces We even got so far as to hum one of Offenbach's couplets; but I must confess that our jokes were feeble, and that we did not sing the airs correctly. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories She is perfectly ignorant of the history of music; hates classical works; knows few of the masters' names save Verdi, Donizetti, Offenbach, and Mozart, the latter only as the composer of 'Don Giovanni.' Music and Some Highly Musical People It suffices to mention Meyerbeer and Offenbach, representatives of two widely divergent departments of the art. Jewish Literature and Other Essays In Offenbach alone there are twenty English wives with forty English born children. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship There is no triviality in it, as we find in most of the comic operas of Offenbach and others; it is always noble as well as characteristic in every part. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas The fine passage beginning, "Danger is passing, time is flying," becomes one of those rapid airs which have made Offenbach famous, when he composes a dance for conspirators. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories If I had been asked at this time who was my favourite of all modern authors, and what the name of the composer I admired most, I should have said Justin McCarthy and Offenbach! Confessions of a Book-Lover Among other incidents in a career of growing importance was a position in the orchestra with which Offenbach toured this country. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Worth and Offenbach were safe from all bullets, and that society, under the Septennate, promised to be every bit as leste as under the Empire. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida When I was an undergraduate there was a song from a comic opera by Offenbach so much in favour as to be de rigueur at festive meetings. A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing Dumas, Jr., Zola and Offenbach have all filled the chair and presided at the monthly dinner. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune She preferred Offenbach, and she never became a cultivated musician. Girls and Women In the course of the month Lili spent some time with an uncle at Offenbach on the Main, and, joining her there, Goethe found her all that his heart could wish. The Youth of Goethe If you feel Offenbach, which is a separate city, is the environs of Frankfurt, he will approve the construction there. The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) The family likeness between the "Baron von Offenbach," the "Comte de Saint-Germain" and the "Comte de Cagliostro" is at once apparent. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements He calls him the most honied names: Shakspere, Duvert and Lauzanne, Rossini, Offenbach—according to the kind of theater he directs. How to Write a Play Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola They read good books instead of bad ones, they prefer a beautiful picture to a showy one, and Beethoven to Offenbach. Girls and Women During the three remaining months he spent in Frankfort he on four different occasions visited Offenbach, where he must often have seen her alone. The Youth of Goethe He does not approve of buying in Offenbach. The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) Offenbach used this, but it has played but a small part since then. Musical Memories During his lifetime, Sullivan was called the English Auber by people who wanted to flatter him, and the English Offenbach by people who wanted to snub him. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Offenbach and Strauss and others have written musical comedies which are classical. The Photoplay A Psychological Study To-night both Arab and French bands were playing within the enclosure, and it was pleasant enough listening to Offenbach's music under the beams of the full moonlight. A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months So far as the land in Offenbach is concerned, and the plan of the city that we finance road work is concerned—this is entirely impossible. The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) Not long ago I was speaking of Offenbach, trying to do justice to his marvellous natural gifts and deploring his squandering them. Musical Memories I had had the utmost difficulty in understanding the end of his story, because he interjected, every other moment, couplets from Jacques Offenbach's best score. Atlantida He will sing no longer the lively little scraps of Offenbach I have taught him. The Great Taboo Fred reddened, swung his bow viciously, and dashed into "Natchez Under the Hill," an old air which would have delighted Offenbach, but which will never appear in a collection of classical music. Romance of California Life His mockery of the classic in art was later paralleled by Offenbach in La Belle Hélène. Promenades of an Impressionist Now posterity is proving that I was wrong, for Offenbach is coming back into fashion. Musical Memories As for the next monarch, William, never was there such a Roi Carotte, and Offenbach seems to have been born to immortalize him in one of his peculiar versions of history. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 While she was in Paris she became acquainted with the great Gounod and with the brilliant but erratic Offenbach. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 The old Attic Comedy has been variously compared to Charivari, Punch, the comic opera of Offenbach, and a Parisian 'revue de fin d'année.' Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 And I cultivated with care the acquaintance of a neighbour who had taken the Globe Theatre for the purpose of producing Offenbach's operas. Confessions of a Young Man My phrase is not exaggerated, for Offenbach hardly dreamed of creating an art. Musical Memories But I loved life better than books, and I cultivated with care the acquaintance of a neighbour who had taken the Globe Theatre for the purpose of producing Offenbach's operas. Confessions of a Young Man The electric railway recently set in operation between Frankfort and Offenbach furnishes an occasion for studying the question of such roads anew and from a practical standpoint. Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 An unseen orchestra, stationed in the conservatory, sent forth strains of music, now grave, now gay, as Gounod or Offenbach ruled the tuneful spirit of the hour. Not Pretty, but Precious A touch of Offenbach would seem more appropriate. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial Jacques Offenbach By adding still another third we have the dominant eleventh. Musical Memories He always went to Ireland for the fishing, and he came to Paris for the new Offenbach things. The American You were born in Offenbach, but went to America at the age of four. The Great Secret I was born at Offenbach," he told her, "near Frankfurt. The Pawns Count "I shall certainly get those quadrilles of Offenbach's," said another. Charlotte's Inheritance But innovations in harmony are rare in Offenbach’s work. Musical Memories Then the colonel fell to his guileless Offenbach again. The Isle of Unrest "We had a few bars of Offenbach at the Park, and here we have Offenbach again," commented the doctor. Tales from Bohemia But after having been moved by a scene from Wagner, he would strum out a gallop of Offenbach, or sing some music-hall ditty after the Ode to Joy. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The names of Offenbach and Hervé were mentioned; both were admitted to be geniuses, but the latter, it was declared, would have been the greater had he had the advantage of a musical education. A Mummer's Wife Grétry was no more a great musician than Offenbach, for he also wrote badly. Musical Memories Presently, leaving his cigarette to smoulder, he began to buzz through his teeth, in the bucolic manner, an air of Offenbach. The Isle of Unrest The champagny strains of Offenbach are heard in every town of Spain oftener than the ballads of the country. Castilian Days The echoes of Offenbach's wondrous air, a crystal stream of harmony, and of the passion-pulsing words, died through the vaulted heights. Darkness and Dawn That was thirty pounds a week gone; and the woman sang so fearfully out of tune that she was hissed—a pity, for the piece contained some of Offenbach's best music. A Mummer's Wife Although he was not a great musician, Offenbach had a surprising natural instinct and made here and there curious discoveries in harmony. Musical Memories It was the spirit of Offenbach, brooding over Europe. Old Calabria It was a great success, whether by the Duke de Morny or by Offenbach, and was the funniest thing I ever saw. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters It was only after dinner, in the drawing-room, while musicians discoursed Offenbach and Rossini from behind a screen of fern and flower, that Vassili found an opportunity of addressing himself directly to Etta. The Sowers Betty, still smiling, passed on into the music-room, where she took her violin from its case and played some rollicking measures from Offenbach. Man on the Box It is strange but true that Offenbach lost all his good qualities as soon as he took himself seriously. Musical Memories Offenbach's opera had its first performance on November 14, 1907, the cast being as follows: Olympia ……………………………….. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time August was spent delightfully with Lili at Offenbach; his letters speak of nothing but her. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life And secondly, that of a violoncello solo, admirably played by Offenbach, who was then quite young, and a musician in heart and soul, but who had not yet shown his great talent as a composer. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville They are afraid such a thing might lead to a scandal a la Offenbach. On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, What hurt Grétry was his unbounded conceit, with which Offenbach, to his credit, was never afflicted. Musical Memories Meanwhile, however, Offenbach's "Contes d'Hoffmann," which had had a few performances at the Fifth Avenue Theater twenty-five years before, was brought forward. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Goethe, if we may believe his autobiography, experienced his first love about the age of fifteen in the person of Gretchen, whom some have supposed to be the daughter of an innkeeper at Offenbach. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life The red-haired judge, with straw hat and Mephistophelean limp, was there, looking like an Offenbach villain out for a spree. South Wind And some day your children will think Puccini and Strauss as old-fashioned as you think 'Faust' and Offenbach. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby As the good public cannot resign itself to getting along without gaiety, it goes to operetta and turns naturally to Offenbach who created it and furnished an inexhaustible supply. Musical Memories "A memory of Offenbach," he said, rising and coming over to the piano. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab Without intending any disrespect to these two eminent Fathers of the Church, the two Eusebius' always reminded me irresistibly of the two Ajaxes of Offenbach's opera-bouffe. The Days Before Yesterday When are the articles on Offenbach, etc., from the same intellectual region, to appear?…I am curious also to see what news there will be of the Berlin Orchestral concerts, instituted and conducted by Bulow. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End I sing them things from comic operas—Offenbach, Sullivan, and the rest; and if they are very sentimentally inclined I sing them good old-fashioned love-songs full of the musician's tricks. The Judgment House Offenbach did not belong to that heroic strain to which success is the least of its cares. Musical Memories "My dear," he answered recklessly, rendered bold by the champagne he had taken, "you observed—" "Nothing particular," answered Mrs. Rolleston, glancing at him with a stony eye, "except that I consider Offenbach low." The Mystery of a Hansom Cab In another minute Dare entered, humming the latest air of Offenbach. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day And he whistled a bar from Offenbach, his eyes dancing. The Puppet Crown However, a large body of citizens and boatmen crowded in front of the soldiers and prevented them from firing, for General Albert was very well liked in Offenbach. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot The military band stopped playing and the Offenbach polka came to a halt with one foot in the air. Tartarin De Tarascon He worshipped Handel; he liked Offenbach, and the airs that went about the streets, but he cared for nothing between these two extremes. The Way of All Flesh But she played Schumann, Schubert, Offenbach, Chopin, and the old gentleman strolled to and fro and mused, smiling. The Financier, a novel The admittedly inferior musician is the one who, like Auber and Offenbach, not to mention our purveyors of drawing-room ballads, can produce an unlimited quantity of symmetrical tunes, but cannot weave themes symphonically. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring Close to my hotel there was a roofless theatre crammed with people, where they were giving Offenbach. The Rhythm of Life |
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