1900 · Paris
by OFFENBACH, Jacques 1819-1880
Paris: Ménestrel, Heugel et Cie. [PN H. 2447], 1900. Large octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers with title within decorative border. 1f. (recto title within decorative border, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents, verso blank), 74 pp.
Named cast includes Guyot, Geoffroy, Tautin, and Geoffroy. Annotations to cast list in pencil.
Wrappers worn, soiled, and slightly chipped; spine with small tears and minor loss; detached; publisher's handstamp to lower margin. Browned; small circular publisher's handstamps to lower margin of title; former owner's handstamp to upper margin of second leaf. Re-issue from first edition plates.
Le mari à la porte, to a libretto by Delacour, was first performed in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens on 22 June 1859.
"[Offenbach] was, with Johann Strauss (ii), one of the two composers of outstanding significance in popular music of the 19th century and the composer of some of the most exhilaratingly gay and tuneful music ever written ... Moreover, it was through the success of Offenbach's works abroad that operetta became an established international genre, producing outstanding national exponents in Strauss, Sullivan and Lehár and evolving into the 20th-century musical." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online. (Inventory #: 29220)
Named cast includes Guyot, Geoffroy, Tautin, and Geoffroy. Annotations to cast list in pencil.
Wrappers worn, soiled, and slightly chipped; spine with small tears and minor loss; detached; publisher's handstamp to lower margin. Browned; small circular publisher's handstamps to lower margin of title; former owner's handstamp to upper margin of second leaf. Re-issue from first edition plates.
Le mari à la porte, to a libretto by Delacour, was first performed in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens on 22 June 1859.
"[Offenbach] was, with Johann Strauss (ii), one of the two composers of outstanding significance in popular music of the 19th century and the composer of some of the most exhilaratingly gay and tuneful music ever written ... Moreover, it was through the success of Offenbach's works abroad that operetta became an established international genre, producing outstanding national exponents in Strauss, Sullivan and Lehár and evolving into the 20th-century musical." Andrew Lamb in Grove Music Online. (Inventory #: 29220)