OFFENBACH: Le Manage aux Lanternes

OFFENBACH: Le Manage aux Lanternes 10 October. Paris, B.P. Text by “Jules Dubois” (pseudonym of M. Carré and L. Battu). One act. (An earlier version, called Le Trésor à Mathurin, had been given in concert form at the Salle Hertz, Paris in May 1853). The most popular of Offenbach’s numerous 1-act operettas produced before Orphée aux Enfers (1858). Outside Paris, given at: BERLIN, KROLL’S 17 June 1858 (in French, by the Bouffes-Parisiens) and O. 13 December 1858 (in German). VIENNA, CA. 16…