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La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein is Offenbach's 1867 opéra bouffe satirizing militarism, premiered in Paris with Hortense Schneider in the title role.
Barbe-bleue is Offenbach's 1866 opéra bouffe after Perrault's Bluebeard, with a Meilhac-Halévy libretto and Hortense Schneider as Boulotte.
Die schöne Galathee is an 1865 one-act operetta by Franz von Suppé, based on the Galatea myth and his first critical success.
La princesse de Trébizonde is Offenbach's 1869 opéra bouffe, premiered at Baden-Baden and revised for Paris in the same productive year as Les brigands.
Le pont des soupirs is Offenbach's Venice-set 1861 opéra bouffe, with a Crémieux-Halévy libretto and a later four-act Paris version in 1868.
Robinson Crusoé is Offenbach's 1867 opéra comique after Daniel Defoe, written for the Paris Opéra-Comique and known for its larger-scale score.
M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le... is Offenbach's one-act 1861 opéra bouffe, a Paris drawing-room parody of Italian bel canto and social pretension.
Le petit Faust is Hervé's 1869 opera bouffe parody of Goethe and Gounod's Faust, first staged at Paris's Folies-Dramatiques.
Les chevaliers de la Table Ronde is Hervé's 1866 French opera bouffe, his first full-length work in the genre at the Bouffes-Parisiens.
L'île de Tulipatan is Offenbach's one-act 1868 opéra bouffe, with a Chivot-Duru libretto and a comic plot centered on mistaken gender roles.
L'oeil crevé is Hervé's 1867 French opera bouffe, a Folies-Dramatiques hit whose first year reached 345 performances in Paris.
Banditenstreiche is an 1867 operetta by Franz von Suppé with a German libretto by B. Boutonnier, premiered at Vienna's Carltheater.
Fleur de thé is Charles Lecocq's 1868 three-act opéra-bouffe, a Chinoiserie piece and his first substantial Paris stage success.
