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Opéra féerie (French:
[ɔ.pe.ʁa fe.ʁi]; plural: opéras féeries) is a French genre of
opera or
opéra-ballet where the plot is based on
fairy tales, often with elements of magic in their stories.
[1] Popular in the 18th century, from the time of
Jean-Philippe Rameau onwards, the form reached its culmination with works such as
La belle au bois dormant by
Michele Carafa and
Cendrillon by
Nicolas Isouard at the beginning of the 19th century.
Examples of the genre include:
[1]
-
Zémire et Azor (1771), music by
André Grétry
-
Cendrillon (1810) and Aladin ou la Lampe merveilleuse (1822), music by
Nicolas Isouard,
libretti by
Charles-Guillaume Étienne
- Zirphile et fleur de myrte ou cent ans en un jour (1818), music by
Charles-Simon Catel, libretto by
Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Nicolas Lefebvre
-
Le cheval de bronze (1835), music by
Daniel Auber
- La fée aux roses (1849), libretto by
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and
Eugène Scribe, music by
Fromental Halévy, Paris,
Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique
- La chatte blanche (1852) by the
Frères Cogniard
- Les amours du diable (1853), by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, music by
Albert Grisar, Paris,
Théâtre Lyrique
-
Le roi Carotte (1872) and
Le voyage dans la lune (1875), music by
Jacques Offenbach (the first in collaboration with
Victorien Sardou)
-
L'eau qui danse, le pomme qui chante et l'oiseau qui dit la vérité (2009), by Canadian composer
Gilles Tremblay and Pierre Morency
[2]
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