List of operas and operettas by Emmanuel Chabrier

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This is a List of operas and operettas by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894).

List

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Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre Notes
Jean Hunyade opera 4 acts Henri Fouquier composed 1867, incomplete, only 62 pages of manuscript survive, fragments used in Gwendoline and Briséïs
Le service obligatoire (with Jules Costé and René de Boisdeffre) opérette bouffe 3 acts Marion, Henri Meilhac, Fournier-Sarloveze 21 December 1872 Paris, Cercle de l'Union artistique score lost
Fisch-Ton-Kan opéra bouffe 1 act Paul Verlaine and probably Lucien Viotti, after Thomas Sauvage and Gabriel de Lurieu's Fich-Tong-Khan ou L'orphelin de la Tartarie 31 March 1875 Paris, Cercle de l'Union Artistique composed 1863–1864, incomplete
L'étoile opéra bouffe 3 acts Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo 28 November 1877 Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Le Sabbat opéra comique 1 act Paul Armand Silvestre composed 1877, incomplete, only some pages survive
La Girondine opéra Jules Claretie composed 1878, lost or transferred to Les muscadins
Une éducation manquée opérette 1 act Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo 1 May 1879 Paris, Cercle de la Presse
Les muscadins opéra 4 acts Jules Claretie and Paul Armand Silvestre composed 1880, incomplete, only certain numbers survive in manuscript
Gwendoline opéra 3 acts Catulle Mendès 10 April 1886 Brussels, La Monnaie
Le roi malgré lui opéra comique 3 acts Émile de Najac and Paul Burani, revised by Jean Richepin, after Marguerite-Louise Virginie Ancelot's Le roi malgré lui 18 May 1887 Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart)
Briséïs, or Les amants de Corinthe drame lyrique 3 acts Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël, after Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth 13 January 1897 Paris, Concerts Lamoureux composed 1888–91, Act 1 complete, some sketches for Act 2 and themes in manuscript [1]
Vaucochard et fils Ier opérette Paul Verlaine and Lucien Viotti 22 April 1941 Paris, Salle de l'Ancien Conservatoire composed 1864, incomplete, only four surviving numbers

References

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Notes
  1. ^ Delage, Roger. Emmanuel Chabrier. Fayard, Paris, 1999. Catalogue des oeuvres, pp. 685–715
Sources
  • Sadie, Stanley (Ed.) (1994) [1992]. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. vol. 1, A–D, chpt: "Chabrier, (Alexis-)Emmanuel" by Myriam Soumagnac. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 0-935859-92-6.
  • Operone page on Chabrier, accessed 31 March 2011

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