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Adolphe Adam operas
• Le chalet (1834)
• Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836)
• Le toréador (1849)
• La poupée de Nuremberg (1852)
• Si j'étais roi (1852)

“Le chalet” by Adolphe Adam

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Das Chalet

Premiere / date of written: 25 September 1834

Le chalet is an opéra-comique in one act by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Mélésville (A-H J Duveyrier) after the singspiel Jery und Bätely by Goethe.
The opera was premiered by the Paris Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse on 25 September 1834. The work had a long and successful career at the Opéra-Comique; it reached its 500th performance in 1851, its 1,000th in 1873 and 1,500th in 1922 with Miguel Villabella as Daniel.

Libretti

# Language Authors
1 French Eugène Scribe, Anne Honoré Joseph Mélesville
2 German

original libretto
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Tags

Genre: Opéra comique
Style / Movement: Early Romantic
Structure: Full-length Number opera
Discovery: Deep cut

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