List of operas and operettas by Chabrier

This is a List of operas and operettas by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894)

List

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre	Notes
Jean Hunyade	opéra	4 acts	FouquierHenri Fouquier	1867-00-00		composed 1867, incomplete, only 62 pages of manuscript survive, fragments used in Gwendoline and Briséïs
serviceLe service obligatoire (with Jules Costé and Rene de Boisdeffre)	opérette bouffe	3 acts	Marion, Henri Meilhac, Fournier-Sarloveze	1872-12-2121 December 1872	Paris, Cercle de l'Union artistique	score lost
Fisch-Ton-Kan	opéra bouffe	1 act	VerlainePaul Verlaine and probably Lucien Viotti, after Thomas Sauvage and Gabriel de Lurieu's Fich-Tong-Khan ou L'orphelin de la Tartarie	1875-03-3131 March 1875	Paris, Cercle de l'Union Artistique	composed 1863–1864, incomplete
etoileL'étoile	opéra bouffe	3 acts	LeterrierEugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo	1877-11-2828 November 1877	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
SabbatLe Sabbat	opéra comique	1 act	SilvestrePaul Armand Silvestre	1877-99-99		composed 1877, incomplete, only some pages survive
GirondineLa Girondine	opéra		ClaretieJules Claretie	1878-00-00		composed 1878, lost or transferred to Les muscadins
educationUne éducation manquée	opérette	1 act	LeterrierEugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo	1879-05-011 May 1879	Paris, Cercle de la Presse
muscadinsLes muscadins	opéra	4 acts	ClaretieJules Claretie and Paul Armand Silvestre	1880-00-00		composed 1880, incomplete, only certain numbers survive in manuscript
Gwendoline	opéra	3 acts	MendesCatulle Mendès	1886-04-1010 April 1886	Brussels, La Monnaie
roiLe roi malgré lui	opéra comique	3 acts	NajacÉmile de Najac and Paul Burani, revised by Jean Richepin, after Marguerite-Louise Virginie Ancelot's Le roi malgré lui	1887-05-1818 May 1887	Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart)
Briséïs, or Les amants de Corinthe	drame lyrique	3 acts	MendesCatulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël, after Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth	1897-01-1313 January 1897	Paris, Concerts Lamoureux	composed 1888–91, Act 1 complete, some sketches for Act 2 and themes in manuscript [1]
Vaucochard et fils Ier	opérette		VerlainePaul Verlaine and Lucien Viotti	1941-04-2222 April 1941	Paris, Salle de l'Ancien Conservatoire	composed 1864, incomplete, only four surviving numbers

References

Notes

1. Delage, Roger. Emmanuel Chabrier. Fayard, Paris, 1999. Catalogue des oeuvres, pp. 685–715

Sources

• Sadie, Stanley (Ed.) (1994) [1992]. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. vol. 1, A–D, chpt: "Chabrier, (Alexis-)Emmanuel" by Myriam Soumagnac. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 0-935859-92-6.
• Operone page on Chabrier, accessed 31 March 2011