Quiz 5 Flashcards
Second Empire in 1852-1870
Louis Napoleon and Eugenie
Belle Epoque in 1900-1912
Includes fin de siecle
Eugene Labiche
An Italian Straw Hat
Jacques Offenbach
Orpheus in the Underwood(1858) - Libretto by Hector
Tales of Hoffman(1881)
Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy
Wrote Carmen
Paris Opera
Designed by Charles Garnier
Les demi-mondaines of the 1850s evolved into
les grandes horizontales of the 1890s
Caf’conc’
Cafe-concerts
Cabarets
Chat Noir(1881), Le Mirliton(1885), Le Moulin Rouge(1889)
Georges Feydeau’s first produced play in Paris
Amour et piano
Georges Feydeau
Hotel Paradiso
Georges Feydeau’s master piece
The Girl from Maxim’s
Symbolism early influences
Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du mal(1857)
Richard Wager - Leitmotivs
Symbolism
Art Nouveau design(a.k.a - stil moderne)
Symbolist poets
Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs Du Mal(1857)
1890-92 Theatre d’Art
Paul Fort
1892-99, 1912-1929 Theatre de I’Oeuvre
Aurelien Lugne-Poe
Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian)
Pelleas et Melisande(1892)
Second Empire
Middle Class prosperity
Second Empire
Middle Class prosperity
Eugene Labiche
17 plays, mostly Vaudevilles
Greatest author of French Farce Before Feydeau
Eugene Labiche
Jacques Offenbach
King of French Operetta
Victorien Sardou did
Apply Piece Bien Faite formula to Piece a these