Jacques Offenbach
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Nov 5, 2026
Pat CorkeryHOST
Thank you.
Pat CorkeryHOST
The gymnast at the Grand Symphony Orchestra there with the overture from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.
Pat CorkeryHOST
Here are the Cliff Adams singers passing by.
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There is a lady sweet and kind Was never paid so please my mind And yet I love her till I die Her gestures, motions and her smile my heart beguile.
William CooperHOST
Thank you.
William CooperHOST
Possibly the most surprising revelation in all March literature is that Jacques Offenbach, who first put the champagne bubbles into Parisian comic opera, was responsible for the music of the Marines hymn.
William CooperHOST
Of course, Offenbach didn't call it that.
William CooperHOST
when he wrote it for an operetta entitled Jean-Yves de Brevent.
Russell DaviesHOST
Five in a row and a bonus point.
Russell DaviesHOST
APPLAUSE Ben Spicer, a little Offenbach for you to listen to with a melody from his opera The Tales of Hoffman. . . .
Russell DaviesHOST
That was a famous example of a barcarolle, a song form traditionally associated with workers in which European city? Prague? No.
Russell DaviesHOST
Claire Reynolds? Venice.
Peter LorreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Your New York debut.
Peter LorreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Not at the Met to the music of... of Offenbach's Gete Parisienne, no.
Peter LorreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But at the Madison Square Garden.
Peter LorreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
to the roar of 15,000 trolls.
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Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, first performed in St. Petersburg in 1892, grew from his tale of the Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
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Delibes' Coppelia and Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann both drew on the Sandman, and in the 20th century, Paul Hindemith wrote an opera, Cardiac, based on another of his stories, about a goldsmith who murders his customers to recover the jewels he has made for them.
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Today, Hoffmann is recognized as one of the great writers of the Romantic Age, and The Sandman is one of the most widely studied stories in German literature.
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And the little bag of sand that the kindly old nursery figure carried has, thanks to him, a darker shadow that it will never quite lose.
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The doll dance of Swanilda, with its jerky mechanical movement slowly melting into human grace, became one of the most famous scenes in all ballet.
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The second French version was an opera, Les Contes d'Hoffmann.
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The Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach, the composer best known for his sparkling operettas, was based on a play of the same name by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, first performed in Paris in 1851.
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In the opera, Hoffman himself is the hero.
Oliver CamachoHOST
In 1837, it was done at SETI's Roberto Deveraux, premiering in Naples.
Oliver CamachoHOST
In 1855, Offenbach's Pampol et Perinettes premiered in Paris.
Oliver CamachoHOST
In 1857, it was Michael Balfour's The Rose of Castile premiering in London.
Oliver CamachoHOST
In 1866, Igor Borodin's opera Valiant Nights premiered in Moscow.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
In March 1881, he wrote to theatre newspaper The Era.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
In his letter, Lefroy announced the existence of an unpublished comic opera written by Jacques Offenbach.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
The popular French-German composer was in no position to deny Lefroy's claim.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
He had conveniently died the previous year.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Lefroy used the fake opera as bait.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Then he changed his plans.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
Lefroy told the tenor, Henry Bracey, that his wealthy benefactor had died.
Tony RobinsonNARRATOR
The Offenbach manuscript had been left to Lefroy as well as £1,000 a year, and that would rise to £10,000 should Lefroy marry.
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Eric IdleGUEST
I think actually one should remember that Offenbach started Gilbert & Sullivan.
Eric IdleGUEST
They got it from there.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
I was thinking as we were listening to it how difficult it is actually to be funny in music.
Eric IdleGUEST
There was a sign saying, bark later, often bark even later.
Eric IdleGUEST
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Michael BerkeleyHOST
We heard the Can-Can, the Infernal Gallop, from the Operator Office in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bishkov.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
You went, as you said, to Pembroke in Cambridge, Eric Idle, to study English in 18... 1865.
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There's traditional folk music at the Village Hall in Marne Hall with John Duran and the North Assembly from 7.30. And there's another moviola at the Lecture Hall in Mere with Rose of Nevada.
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Back down to the coast now, at the Lighthouse in Poole, it's Leo Sayer with Can't Stop Loving You from 7.30. And over in Salisbury at Medieval Hall, it's CV with Offenbach's Orpheus in The Underworld.
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At the Playhouse, you can see An Evening of Bolesque Cabaret, and that's at 7.30. Over at Salisbury's Arts Centre, they are hosting Wi-Fi Wars.
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That's a live comedy game show from Seven.
Christian KriegeskotteGUEST
So, you know, one of the great stories, which we will explore in the concert program, is a film that Romero saw as a young man called Tales of Hoffman, which we know simply as an opera.
Christian KriegeskotteGUEST
Jacques Offenbach, I don't remember the year, I should know that, but let's say late 19th century, wrote this wonderful opera, this fantasy opera, Tales of Hoffman, that the Archers, the famous filmmaking duo in the 1960s, adapted to a film which a lot of film scholars describe as being horror adjacent because the visuals are so wild and it's such a trip, for lack of a better word, to describe it.
Christian KriegeskotteGUEST
And teenage George Romero, went to see this film in the theater and it blew him away.
Christian KriegeskotteGUEST
And he is often captured on camera as saying that that was the film he saw as a young man that inspired him to want to become a filmmaker.
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