How To Use Offenbach In A Sentence
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It is likely that the success of that ballet encouraged other ballet companies to stage their own ballets based on Offenbach potpourris.
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She had a sweet, low voice, "that most excellent thing in woman;" while her light, silvery laughter rippled forth ever and anon, like a chime of well-tuned bells, enchaining me as would chords of Offenbach's champagne music.
She and I, Volume 1
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= Pe´richole = (_La_), the heroine of Offenbach’s comic opera (_opera bouffe_) of that name.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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April will see another French classic, Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, in a more avant-garde production with eccentric sets and costumes supplied by Portland Opera.
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Six years later, a similar conflagration consumed the Opéra-Comique, destroying the score as Offenbach had left it.
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I was reminded of the following lines, from Offenbach's operetta Geneviève de Brabant.
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She discovered that I didn't revert to ballet steps, but with primitive glee made wild, exuberant jumps when we danced to Offenbach's Gaite Parisienne.
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His fictional Hoffmann is a great teller of tales, whose life is on the skids; Offenbach was a great entertainer, whose reputation had taken a turn for the worse, leaving him isolated and open to ferocious attack.
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However, the chief propagator of the classical operetta was Jacques Offenbach, who began with one-act works before expanding into evening-long scores.
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The name alludes to the Barcarole ariaa Venetian boat songfrom Jacques Offenbach's opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann.
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So what drew Offenbach to such uncharacteristic subject matter?
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Perhaps surprisingly, given his genuine good keen man externals, Wilkes also happened to be a lover of ballet and opera - he once went to Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman at Sydney Opera House - and he was a good friend of the artist Tony Fomison.