Pomme d Api

Overview

Pomme d'api, a one-act operetta by Jacques Offenbach (libretto by Ludovic Halévy and William Busnach), first given at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris on 4 September 1873 and moved to the Bouffes-Parisiens in April 1874 (en.wikipedia «Pomme d'api»; IMSLP).

Relevance to Marie

On the evening of 20 June 1874, in Paris, the family goes to see Offenbach's Bagatelle (see BAGATELLE_OFFENBACH) from a second-tier box. Marie disguises herself in a black dress, hat and veil; the heat and the gas make her faint, she goes out for air, «et je rentrai pour voir la fin de "Pomme d'Api" que je trouve assez bête» (020.0369). So the one-act piece was the other item on the bill; her verdict is that it is rather silly.

References in Diary

• 1874-06-20 (020.0369)

Sources

Diary 020.0369; en.wikipedia «Pomme d'api» (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomme_d%27api); IMSLP «Pomme d'api (Offenbach, Jacques)».