Le Docteur miracle

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Le Docteur Miracle is a one-act operetta that was first performed in 1857. It was written for a competition organized by Jacques Offenbach. The operetta shared the prize with another setting of the same libretto by Charles Lecocq. Georges Bizet, who would later become famous for his opera Carmen, composed one version, while Charles Lecocq composed the other. Bizet's version is noted for its high spirits and mastery of the operetta style of the time.12

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…stage work, the one-act operetta Le Docteur miracle, performed in Paris in 1857, is marked simply by high spirits and an easy mastery of the operetta idiom of the day. His Symphony in C Major, however, written in 1855 but subsequently lost and not discovered and performed until 1935, will…
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…stage work, the one-act operetta Le Docteur miracle, performed in Paris in 1857, is marked simply by high spirits and an easy mastery of the operetta idiom of the day. His Symphony in C Major, however, written in 1855 but subsequently lost and not discovered and performed until 1935, will…
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