When France fell in the wake of Bismark’s great victory at Sedan (1870), antisemites claimed that the French failure was due to the Jew Offenbach, whom they alleged was on the payroll of the ...

The work was created in the aftermath of the 1870-71 French-Prussian War, when he had been forced into exile because of his German heritage. When Offenbach returned to Paris, his home since age 14 ...

Offenbach's drama follows the same scheme ... The result is one of the grandest and most expressive of all 19th-century French operas — achieving a combination of emotional depth and musical ...

Offenbach spent a massive tranche of the autumn of his years ... as Antonia’s mother; chorus of Radio France; French National Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa (conductor). Deutsche Grammophon: 4276822.

Neeme Järvi and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande move onto Offenbach’s effervescent music in this, their third album of French orchestral works of the nineteenth century The pairing of Järvi and the ...

According to the French site Franceinfo ... as she frequently performs works by Ravel and Offenbach. Without a doubt, this was one of the highlights of her career. Not every artist is chosen ...

It's also a chance to enjoy one of Offenbach's most inventive, melodic scores in which the starring musical role and many of the best tunes go to the orchestra, here conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce.

Orpheus in the Underworld, a comic operetta by Jacques Offenbach (French libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy), is a satirical treatment of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus.

“Songbird,” the adaptation of Offenbach’s operetta “La Périchole” now playing at the Washington National Opera, harks back to the days when Covid-19 forced arts groups to find new ways ...