Offenbach and the ‘féerie’

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27/05/2022

Le Voyage dans la Lune (1875) is the last of the five works by Jacques Offenbach he designated as a féerie. When he first tackled the genre with Le Roi Carotte in 1872, it was, in the minds of the public of the time, primarily a visual entertainment in which, on principle, music was relegated to the background. In order to understand Offenbach’s position in this universe, whose theatrical potential was bound to attract him, it will be useful to sum up its origins and codes in order to understand the use he made of them throughout his career, his approach to creating féeries and his contribution to the genre.

CD-Book Jacques Offenbach. Le Voyage dans la Lune (2022). Translation: Charles Johnston.