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unusual facts about opera bouffe



Giovanni Cifolelli

His chief works were the operas L'Italienne and Pierre et Lucette, the former being an opera bouffe in one act (with the storyline or libretto by Nicolas-Étienne Framery).


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Dr. Ox's Experiment

The story was adapted by Jacques Offenbach as Le docteur Ox, an opéra-bouffe in three acts and six tableaux, premiered on 26 January 1877 with a libretto by Arnold Mortier, Philippe Gille and Verne himself.

Simon-Max

Nicolas-Marie Simon 'Simon-Max', born Reims in 1852, died 1923, was a French tenor, mainly active in Paris in the field of opera-bouffe.