Barkouf information

Barkouf is an opéra bouffe in three acts premiered in 1860 with music composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Henry Boisseaux, after Abbé Blanchet,^[1] the fourth of his Contes Orientaux entitled Barkouf et Mani.^[2] The title role is a dog. It was the first work by the composer to be performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, but after its initial performances was not performed again until 2018.^[3]

^ Lamb A. Jacques Offenbach (List of stage works). In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
^ Champagnac, M. Contes Orientaux – Moeurs et Habitudes de l'Orient. Mégard et Cie, Rouen, 1852, pp. 92–102.
^ Fath, Rolf. Report from Strasbourg. Opera, April 2019, Vol.70, No.4, pp. 427–428.

[1] Lamb A. Jacques Offenbach (List of stage works). In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.

[2] Champagnac, M. Contes Orientaux – Moeurs et Habitudes de l'Orient. Mégard et Cie, Rouen, 1852, pp. 92–102.

[Opera0419-3] Fath, Rolf. Report from Strasbourg. Opera, April 2019, Vol.70, No.4, pp. 427–428.

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