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- NOV 10, 2022
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- Offenbach · 1977
- Walt Disney World Official Album · 2013
- Offenbach: Suites for Two Cellos · 1980
- 75 ans 75 chansons · 2011
- Classical French: The Capitol Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Carmen Dragon · 2015
- Offenbach · 1977
- Opera - Världens vackraste arior / The Most Beautiful Arias in the World · 1989
- Walt Disney's the Enchanted Tiki Room / The Adventurous Jungle Cruise · 2020
- Offenbach: Suites for Two Cellos · 1980
- Hoffmanns Erzählungen / Tales of Hoffmann - Complete Recording (Oper in 1 Prolog, 3 Akten u. 1 Epilog/Libretto: Jules Barbier und Michel Carre/Rec. 1951 in London) · 2012
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About Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach is probably most widely known for the high-kicking Can-Can (more properly “Galop infernal”) that enlivens his satirical 1858 operetta Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld). More hits followed during the 1860s, such as La Belle Hélène (1864) and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867). Born in Cologne in 1819, but French by adoption, Offenbach composed a hundred or so comic operas which showcase his gift for lampooning social mores, not to mention the music of composers such as Berlioz and Wagner. Fuelled by a flair for supple melody, vivacity, and a piquant wit, they drew the admiration of Bizet, Debussy, and Rossini (who dubbed him the Mozart of the Champs-Élysées). Their influence also proved international, including the musical theatre of Gilbert & Sullivan in London and Johann Strauss II in Vienna. Harbouring ambitions for serious opera, Offenbach composed the unsuccessful Die Rheinnixen in 1864, while Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), unfinished at the time of his death in 1880, posthumously secured an enduring triumph.
- HOMETOWN
- Cologne, Germany
- BORN
- June 20, 1819
- GENRE
- Classical