Offenbach, Jacques

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Offenbach by Nadar (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Offenbach_by_Nadar.jpg

Basic data

  1. Eberst, Jakob Real Name
  2. June 20, 1819 in Köln
  3. †
    October 5, 1880 in Paris
  4. Cellist, Komponist, Kapellmeister, Theaterdirektor
  5. Paris

Iconography

Offenbach by Nadar (Source: Wikimedia)
Offenbach in the 1840s (Source: Wikimedia)
Early influences (clockwise from top left) Luigi Cherubini, Fromental Halévy, Friedrich von Flotow, Louis-Pierre Norblin (Source: Wikimedia)
Offenbach as a young cello virtuoso: drawing by Alexandre Laemlein from 1850 (Source: Wikimedia)
The composer-conductor caricatured, 1858 (Source: Wikimedia)
Poster by Offenbach's friend Nadar (Source: Wikimedia)
Hortense Schneider, the first star created by Offenbach (Source: Wikimedia)
Poster for a 19th-century production of Orpheus in the Underworld (Source: Wikimedia)
Offenbach with his only son, Auguste, 1865 (Source: Wikimedia)
Offenbach's leading ladies (clockwise from top left): Marie Garnier in Orphée aux enfers, Zulma Bouffar in Les brigands, Léa Silly (role unidentified), Rose Deschamps in Orphée aux enfers (Source: Wikimedia)
Programme for the 1875 London production of La Périchole (Source: Wikimedia)
The Tales of Hoffmann – scene from the premiere, showing Adèle Isaac as the dead Antonia, with (l. to r.) Hippolyte Belhomme, Marguerite Ugalde, Pierre Grivot, Émile-Alexandre Taskin, and Jean-Alexandre Talazac (Source: Wikimedia)
Librettists and successors (clockwise from top left) Ludovic Halévy, Henri Meilhac, Johann Strauss II, Arthur Sullivan (Source: Wikimedia)
Offenbach by André Gill, 1866 (Source: Wikimedia)
Dr Miracle and Antonia in the 1881 premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann (Source: Wikimedia)
Offenbach by Étienne Carjat, early 1860s (Source: Wikimedia)

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Biographical information from the WeGA

Seit 1842 Unterricht bei Vaslin; kurzzeitig Mitglied im Orchester der Opéra-Comique in Paris; Begründer der modernen Operette.

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