List of operas and operettas by Delibes
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This is list of operas and operettas written by the French composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 Léo Delibes
Léo Delibes
Clément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage...

(1836–1891).

List

Title|Genre|Sub­divisions|Libretto|Première date|Place, theatre
La princesse Ravigote opéra comique
Opéra comique
Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections...

3 acts   lost
Le Don Juan suisse opérette 4 acts   lost
Le roi des montagnes opéra comique 3 acts   unfinished
Deux sous de charbon ou Le suicide de bigorneau opérette (asphyxie lyrique) 1 act Jules Moinaux 9 February 1856 Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, Folies-Nouvelles
Théâtre Déjazet
The Théâtre Dejazet is a theatre on the boulevard du Temple in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. It was originally founded in 1770 by Comte d'Artois who later was crowned Charles X, but it was then closed down and not reopened until 1851...

Deux vieilles gardes opérette 1 act Théodore Ferdinand Vallon de Villeneuve and Alphonse Lemonnier 8 August 1856 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
The Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens is a Parisian theatre which was founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta. The current theatre is located in the 2nd arrondissement at 4 rue Monsigny with an entrance at the back at 65 Passage Choiseul. In...

Six demoiselles à marier opérette 1 act Ernest Jaime and Adolphe Choler 12 November 1856 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Maître Griffard opéra comique 1 act Eugène Mestépès and Adolphe Jaime 3 October 1857 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
Théâtre Lyrique
The Théâtre Lyrique was one of four opera companies performing in Paris during the middle of the 19th century . The company was founded in 1847 as the Opéra-National by the French composer Adolphe Adam and renamed Théâtre Lyrique in 1852...

La fille du golfe opéra comique 1 act   composed 1859, but unperformed?
L’omelette à la Follembuche opérette 1 act Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel 8 June 1859 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Monsieur de Bonne-Étoile opéra comique 1 act Philippe Gille
Philippe Gille
Philippe Gille was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé.-Librettos by Philippe Gille:...

4 February 1860 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Les musiciens de l’orchestre
(with Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....

, Erlanger, and Hignard)
opérette 2 acts Philippe Auguste Pittaud de Forges and A. Bourdois 25 January 1861 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Les eaux d'Ems comedy 1 act Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux
Hector-Jonathan Crémieux was a French librettist and playwright. His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic Halévy for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers, known in English as Orpheus in the Underworld....

 and Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy
Ludovic Halévy was a French author and playwright. He was half Jewish : his Jewish father had converted to Christianity prior to his birth, to marry his mother, née Alexandrine Lebas.-Biography:Ludovic Halévy was born in Paris...

Summer 1862 Bad Ems
Bad Ems
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, Kursaal
Mon ami Pierrot opérette 1 act Lockroy (Joseph Philippe Simon) July 1862 Bad Ems, Kursaal
Le jardinier et son seigneur opéra comique 1 act Michel Carré
Michel Carré
Michel Carré was a prolific French librettist.He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse and plays before turning to writing libretti. His libretto for Mirette was never performed in France but was later performed in English adaptation in...

 and Théodore Barrière
1 May 1863 Paris, Théâtre Lyrique
Le tradition prologue en verse 1 act H Derville 5 January 1864 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Grande nouvelle opérette 1 act A Boisgonnier composed 1864, but unperformed?
Le serpent à Plumes farce 1 act Philippe Gille and Cham (Amédée de Noé
Amédée de Noé
Charles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham was a French caricaturist and lithographer. Raised by a family who wished him to attend a polytechnic school, he instead attended painting workshops by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist, taking on the pseudonym "Cham"...

)
16 December 1864 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Le boeuf Apis opéra comique 2 acts Philippe Gille and Eugène Furpille 15 April 1865 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Malbrough s’en va-t-en guerre
(4th act only, together with
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...

, E. Jonas and I. Legouix)
opérette 4 acts Paul Siraudin and William-Bertrand Busnach 13 December 1867 Paris, Théâtre de l'Athénée
L’écossais de Chatou opérette 1 act Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime 16 January 1869 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
La cour du roi Pétaud opéra comique 3 acts Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime 24 April 1869 Paris, Théâtre des Variétés
Théâtre des Variétés
The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1975.-History:...

Fleur-de-lys   1 act Henry Brougham Farnie
Henry Brougham Farnie
Henry Brougham Farnie , often called H. B. Farnie, was a British librettist and adapter of French operettas and an author...

5 April 1873 London
London
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, The Royal Philharmonic Theatre
Le roi l’a dit opéra comique 3 acts Edmond Gondinet
Edmond Gondinet
Edmond Gondinet was a French playwright and librettist. This author, nearly forgotten today, produced forty plays of which several were successful...

24 May 1873 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Opéra-Comique
The Opéra-Comique is a Parisian opera company, which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with, and for a time took the name of its chief rival the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and was also called the...

Jean de Nivelle
Jean de Nivelle (opera)
Jean de Nivelle is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. It premiered on 6 March 1880 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with the French tenor, Jean-Alexandre Talazac in the title role...

opéra
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

3 acts Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille 8 March 1880 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Lakmé
Lakmé
Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. Delibes wrote the score during 1881–82 with its first performance on 14 April 1883 at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Set in British India in the mid 19th century, Lakmé is based on the 1880 novel...

opéra 3 acts Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti 14 April 1883 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Kassya (unfinished, completed by Jules Massenet
Jules Massenet
Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...

)
drame lyrique 4 acts Henri Meilhac
Henri Meilhac
Henri Meilhac , was a French dramatist and opera librettist.-Biography:Meilhac was born in Paris in 1831. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront...

and Philippe Gille
24 March 1893 Paris, Opéra-Comique
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