Offenbach

Overview

Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), German-born French composer of operettas (Orphée aux enfers, La Belle Hélène, La Vie parisienne), whom the Mon Journal indexes list as «Offenbach (Jacques), compositeur» in t.3–t.16 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach).

Relevance to Marie

Stub replaced. Life dates from Wikipedia as cited; the operetta details from the existing RSR notes at 019.0297 and 028.0240. All 16 tagged paragraphs were skimmed. Marie also saw La Belle Hélène in German in Vienna in August 1873 (see MENELAUS).

References in Diary

For Marie he is the music of the era's frivolity. In May 1874 she cannot get a seat for the Bouffes-Parisiens' new Offenbach, Bagatelle, with Judic (019.0297); in January 1875 she goes to Madame l'Archiduc at the Bouffes (028.0240) and walks «chantant un air d'Offenbach» (028.0257); the Nice carnival of 1875 burns Papa Carnaval to Offenbach's music (029.0261); in April 1875 she compares an admirer's letter to «l'archiduc Ernest d'Offenbach» (031.0018). Offenbach is also her shorthand for a catchphrase («comme on dit chez Offenbach», 043.0084; «ça y était comme on dit dans les bêtises d'Offenbach», 032.0434): she sees La Créole (050.0012, 18 November 1875) and Le Voyage dans la lune (050.0180) in Nice, sings his repertoire for Russian friends in 1876 (065.0340), plays the letter of Venus from La Belle Hélène (067.0894), and in 1884 hears the ‘pillaging’ of Offenbach in a new operetta (103.0321, 103.0323).