Le mariage aux lanternes

Jacques Offenbach
Operas Ba-ta-clan (1855) Les deux aveugles (1855) La bonne d'enfant (1856) Le mariage aux lanternes (1857) Orpheus in the Underworld (1858) Geneviève de Brabant (1859) Daphnis et Chloé (1860) M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . . (1861) Le pont des soupirs (1861) Les bavards (1862) Die Rheinnixen (1864) La belle Hélène (1864) Barbe-bleue (1866) La vie parisienne (1866) La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867) Robinson Crusoé (1867) L'île de Tulipatan (1868) La Périchole (1868) Les brigands (1869) Bagatelle (1874) Madame l'archiduc (1874) Le voyage dans la lune (1875) Madame Favart (1878) La fille du tambour-major (1879) The Tales of Hoffmann (1880, unfinished)
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Le mariage aux lanternes (The Wedding by Lantern-Light) is an operetta in one act by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Michel Carré and Léon Battu.

It was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, on 10 October 1857. The operetta was a reworking of Le trésor à Mathurin which Offenbach had given at the Salle Herz in May 1853.

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Recordings

• Recordings may be found on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk

References

• Amadeus Almanac, accessed 26 September 2008
• Andrew Lamb, "Le mariage aux lanternes", in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7