description L'île de Tulipatan Overview
L'île de Tulipatan is a one-act opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, with a French libretto by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru. First performed in Paris in 1868, it builds its comedy around two young people whose sexes were concealed or misrepresented by their families, producing mistaken gender roles and romantic confusion. The compact stage work is intended for a small operatic cast and exemplifies Offenbach's use of brisk ensembles, social satire, and deliberately improbable plots.
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Who composed L'île de Tulipatan and when was it first performed?
It is a one-act opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, with a French libretto by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru. It was first performed in Paris in 1868, during Offenbach's most productive period.
What is the plot of L'île de Tulipatan?
It is a comedy set on a fictional island in which two young people have been raised as the opposite sex by their families, producing mistaken identities and tangled romances. The truth eventually comes out and the couples are sorted out in the traditional opéra bouffe manner.
How long is L'île de Tulipatan?
It is a single-act work, short enough to be programmed on double bills with other one-act French comic pieces. That brevity is typical of the smaller opéras bouffes Offenbach wrote alongside his full-evening hits.
Did the same librettists write other Offenbach works?
Yes, Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru were a established libretto duo in Parisian comic theatre who collaborated on multiple operettas of the era. Their work on L'île de Tulipatan is a representative example of mid-19th-century French comic libretti.
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