Physical description: 183 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits; 26 cm. Contents: Overture and beginners. And in the beginning was Adam; A daughter gone to the bad; Jeannette and her long-running marriage; A loony -- Act I, The age of gold . 'The little Jew' ; The conquest of Paris; 'The Mozart of the Champs-Elysées'; Orpheus goes down to the Underworld; Friday nights with Jacques; From Helen of Troy to native bitch; 'Very nice, Liverpool!'; The last illusion -- Act II, The age of respectability. The cripple and Dr Miracle; The father of Madame Angot's daughter; A little Duke; Old friends and a parrot; To end with Ali Baba -- Entr'acte: higher fliers -- Act III, A late flowering; Miss Eliot's bottom; Gallimaufry; Success in blue stockings; A second marriage; Véronique and the battle of Pelléas; Some very Parisian talents -- Act IV, Decline and fall. Reynaldo from Venezuela; The boobs of Tirésias. Subjects: Operetta France. Opera France Paris 19th century. Opera, French History and criticism.
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