Music
Charles Lecocq (born Paris, 3 June 1832; died Paris, 24 October 1918)
Text
'Clairville', Paul Siraudin and Victor Koning.
Source
A vaudeville Madame Angot, ou La Poissarde parvenue (1796) by A F Eve Maillot
Premières
First Performance: Brussels (Théâtre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes), 4 December 1872.
First Performance in UK: London (St James's Theatre), 17 May 1873.
First Performance in Scotland: Edinburgh (), 22 June 1874.
Scottish Opera première: N/A.
Background
Lecocq's most successful work was the first hugely successful operetta following the series of masterpieces produced by Offenbach during the previous decade.
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