Jacques Offenbach (1 ene 1819 año – 1 ene 1880 año)
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a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.Offenbach and Opera about Opera
A. In reaction to the ever-growing grandeur of opera, composers reached back to an earlier idea that operatic behavior should pursue human or personal truth.
B. Offenbach succeeded in writing a lighter style of opera that has come to be called “operetta.”
C. Among Offenbach’s successes are Orpheus in the Underworld and The Tales of Hoffmann.
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1 ene 1819 año
1 ene 1880 año
~ 61 years