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	opera comique : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com
		Opera box, a partially inclosed portion of the auditorium of an opera house for the use of a small private party.
		Opera girl or Opera girls (Bot.), an East Indian plant (Mantisia saltatoria) of the Ginger family, sometimes seen in hothouses.
		Opera glass, a short telescope with concave eye lenses of low power, usually made double, that is, with a tube and set of glasses for each eye; a lorgnette; -- so called because adapted for use at the opera, theater, etc. Opera hat, a gentleman's folding hat.
	onlinedictionary.datasegment.com /word/opera+comique (272 words)

	Opera comique - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Opéra comique is a French style of opera that is a partial counterpart to the Italian opera buffa.
		Unlike opera buffa however, opéra comique generally uses spoken dialogue instead of recitative.
		It should not be confused with the Opéra-Comique, the name of an opera company (and its opera house) in Paris.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Opera_comique (128 words)

	Opera Comique Maastricht (OCM)
		is een enthousiast muziektheatergezelschap, dat op 26 september 1989 werd opgericht met als doel het uitvoeren van komische opera's.
		Het genre waarin wij ons hebben gespecialiseerd, de Engelse "light-opera" (voorloper van de musical) en de Franse tegenhanger de "opera bouffe", werd nauwelijks in Maastricht en omgeving geboden.
		De voorstellingen worden in de oorspronkelijk taal gezongen, terwijl de gesproken tekst in het Nederlands is, zodat het publiek de lijn van het verhaal gemakkelijk kan volgen.
	home.tiscali.nl /operacomique (191 words)

	Opera Comique - When travelling to the Opera Comique from Charles des Gaulles and Orly Airports take train number RER-B ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Opera Comique is centrally located in the heart of Paris; only a few steps away from the Opera and near to the main department stores and entertainment venues.
		The famous Opera Garnier is close by to the Opera Comique and the National Library.
		The charming Opera Comique is a 3 star hotel located in the fashionable Opera district of Paris.
	www.nationalhotels.co.uk /uk-hotels-accommodation-769820.html (359 words)

	Opera Comique, Paris
		Opera Comique is located 1 Kilometers from the center of Paris.
		The charming Opera Comique is a three star hotel located in the fashionable Opera district of Paris.
		The Opera Comique is excellently situated in the heart of Paris; only a few steps away from the Opera and near to the main department stores.
	www.rooms-to-book.com /Paris/OperaComique.html (208 words)

	Opera Comique
		The principal front of the "Opera Comique" is in the Strand, and observant passengers who know the narrowness of the area between the Strand and Holywell Street will find it difficult to imagine how, even in London, where now-a-days theatres are edged in among houses anyhow, an " Opera Comique" can have been formed there.
		The Olympic Theatre in Wych Street and the Opera Comique in the Strand were closed in 1899, the Globe Theatre in Newcastle Street shut its doors in 1902.
		This was followed by the closure of the Gaiety Theatre in the Strand in June of the same year.
	www.arthurlloyd.co.uk /OperaComique.htm (570 words)

	Opera Comique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Opéra-Comique is an opera house in Paris.
		The Opéra-Comique company was established in 1714 to offer French opera as an alternative to Italian opera that then dominated the continent.
		French "opéra comique", in the19th century at least, did not have to be comic; the term covered a much wider category of work.
	www.therfcc.org /opera-comique-278825.html (140 words)

	opera-comique -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		opera company in Paris that for more than two centuries was the chief performer of serious operas and musical dramas in the French language.
		The opera remained a flourishing medium throughout the 19th century, and Italian opera continued as the dominant type during the first half of the century in the hands of Gioacchino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti.
		Includes an essay on the current condition of opera and its audience in the U.S., a database of performance information for over 240 opera companies worldwide, and a directory of resources for secondary school teachers.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9057189 (875 words)

	Hotel Opera Comique Paris, France - Hotel Opera Comique Group Booking Reservation Meetings Meeting Planning ...
		The Hotel Opera Comique is the perfect place to hold a corporate event such as; team building, sales meetings, board of director meetings, or just corporate hospitality.
		Weddings at the Hotel Opera Comique with their facilities, guest rooms and experienced wedding and group management staff, are magnificent.
		A Hotel Opera Comique wedding reception is a party where guests come to celebrate the marriage of the bride and groom.
	www.meetingforce.com /hotel-opera-comique-17h623.html (745 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| 'Lost opera' found in clear-out
		A handwritten copy of the original score for Jacques Offenbach's last opera has been discovered a century after it was thought lost in a fire.
		A section of The Tales of Hoffman, which focuses on the tragic quest for love of the German writer ETA Hoffman, was suppressed by opera management shortly after it was first performed.
		The manuscript was uncovered in a box after a case of fraud forced the company to sort through its archives, he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3896729.stm (256 words)

	Amazon.com: Bizet: Carmen (Opera-comique): Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was that year or the year before that the Pathe company planned with the Opera Comique of Paris a series of "Opera in Your Home" on those new 78 rpm discs.
		The opera was cut into sections ranging from 1:06 to 3:30 minutes and put onto cylinders.
		Most opera historians know how the original version with its spoken dialogue was "through composed" after Bizet's death to make it fit for the "grand" opera houses, while even the Opera Comique pruned down the dialogue for future performances.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000J80T/operasingeonthen (669 words)

	'La Vie Parisienne'a rollicking import - The Washington Times: Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This week, avid area Francophiles will be delighted to discover that Paris has decamped to the District as the famed Opera Comique plays its first-ever visit to les Etats-Unis, courtesy of the Kennedy Center's ongoing Festival of France.
		These were akin to what the Germans called singspiel — operas that also contained spoken dialogue.
		By the mid-19th century, light comic opera, or operetta, was firmly established as the mainstay of the Opera Comique.
	www.washtimes.com /entertainment/20040218-093517-4832r.htm (657 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Theatre - Opera Comique Review - Comique a play within an opera
		For Monsieur (Edward J. Hepburn) and Madame de la Corniche (Virginia Kelly), the opera outing is an opportunity to promote a romance and marriage between their allegedly virtuous daughter Viviane (Selena Broughton) and eligible-if-sex-crazed bachelor Hector Vigneron (Paul Tellier).
		She plans to become a celebrated opera star and is more than willing to "please" the composer Gounod (John Palmer) to realize her impossible dream.
		But such sobering reality is secondary to Opera Comique the sole objective of which is accentuating the adjective in its title.
	jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/O/Opera_Comique/2001/06/23/742311.html (472 words)

	Comfort Hotel Opera Comique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Submitted on Sun Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2004 by A TripAdvisor Member, Brooklyn, NY We stayed at Opera Comique in April 2004.
		Opera Garnier (a must-see) is just a 7 minute walk on Blvd des Italiens, a pleasant Parisian street lined with cozy cafes & stores.
		The Roissy bus takes you from the airport to the Opera for about 9 Euro--from here, take a taxi, or just walk--just 7 minutes--we walked with the suitcases.
	draco.centerline.com /hotelreview197473.html (586 words)

	Opera Comique on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Opera Comique, 299, Strand—A roomy and handsome theatre, built end to...
		France's Opera Comique in Paris is a 3 star hotel.
		The hotel is in the heart of Paris, a few steps from the Opera and the main department stores....
	www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/opera_comique.html (414 words)

	Opéra comique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		French comic opera that is not necessarily sung throughout.
		The early opéra comique had spoken dialogue interspersed with songs, and was mainly comic, the later ones (those written around the late 19th century) usually had continuous music, and was not necessarily humorous (for example, Bizet's Carmen).
		See also Comic Opera; Opera Buffa (Italian); Ballad Opera (English); Singspiel (German).
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/texto/Operacomique.html (58 words)

	ABC News: Review: 'Werther' Opera Triumphant Event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In this photo released by the State Opera Marcelo Alvarez as Werther and Elina Garaca in the role of Charlotte, from left, perform during a rehearsal for the opera "Werther" by Jules Massenet at the State Opera in Vienna.
		In any lesser production, the scene of the bloodstained hero making love would have been ludicrous considering he was just minutes away from his rendezvous with the hereafter.
		But it worked Saturday because all seemed to come together the singing, the musical underpinnings and a staging experiment that was just detracting enough to cut away some of the sentimentality inherent in an opera that deals with love unrequited until the final 20 minutes.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=515830 (434 words)

	"HMS Pinafore", first performed at the Opera Comique in London on 25 May 1878, was Gilbert & Sullivan's fourth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		"HMS Pinafore", first performed at the Opera Comique in London on 25 May 1878, was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth collaboration and their first major success.
		In several of the American productions the role of Ralph Rackstraw was taken by a soprano (in keeping with the burlesque tradition of casting females in the romantic male leads) and at least one production had a female impersonator as Buttercup.
		It is believed that Mrs Howard Paul (who had created the role of Lady Sangazure in "The Sorcerer") had been earmarked for the role but she left the company shortly before the show opened.
	www.hattonoperatic.org /prognote/pinafore.htm (667 words)

	PELLEAS ET MELISANDE, Classical, Opera Comique, Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Debussy's only true opera is one of the most regularly performed and respected operas of the 20th century.
		It is a powerful tale of forbidden love set in the dream-like kingdom of Allemonde.
		Pelleas and Melisande meet only after the heroine has married Golaud, and the passion and suffering of the star-crossed lovers is simply felt and expressed in music of great beauty.
	www.globaltickets.com /THEBS/S713PLMS.htm (63 words)

	Carthalia - Paris: Opera-Comique (Salle Favart) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Built 1898 by Bernier as the 3rd "Salle Favart"on the site of two former theatre buildlings of the same name (1st "Salle Favart": built 1783, destroyed by a fire in 1838; 2nd "Salle Favart": built 1840, destroyed by a fire on 25 May 1887).
		Named in honour of the French opera librettist and Vaudeville author, Charles Edouard Favart.
		The three Salles Favart have been home to the "Opéra-Comique" company from 1783 to 1801, from 1840 to 1887, and again since 1898.
	www.andreas-praefcke.de /carthalia/france/f_paris_operacomique.htm (167 words)

	Opera Comique, The North, England, United Kingdom hotel and apartment reviews. Hotels, apartments and holiday resort ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Opera Comique, The North, England, United Kingdom hotel and apartment reviews.
		Hotels, apartments and holiday resort reviews for Opera Comique, The North, England, United Kingdom
		There are currently no travel reviews for Opera Comique.
	myholidayreport.com /accommodation/United+Kingdom/England/The+North/Opera+Comique (106 words)

	Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Theatre - Theatres and Venues - Opera Comique
		Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Theatre - Theatres and Venues - Opera Comique
		Opera Comique, 299, Strand—A roomy and handsome theatre, built end to end with the Globe, their stages being separated by a party-wall only.
		It is of a construction not usual in England, the stalls and dress-circle being about on a level, so that while the former are rather contracted, the latter enjoys unusual advantages in the way of seeing and hearing.
	www.victorianlondon.org /entertainment/dickens-operacomique.htm (141 words)

	Opéra Comique in Paris ** Opera Guide at 123 Paris
		Opéra Comique of Paris travel guide ** Dance - Theater - Museums - Galleries - arts in Paris
		Also known as Salle Favret, Opera Comique showcases productions originating elsewhere.
		Although staging operettas is the specialty here, well-executed, full-scale operas are also performed in this ornate 1890’s building which reminds one of Opera Garnier but with an emphasis on smaller productions.
	www.123paris.net /arts/opera-comique.html (78 words)

	comfort hotel opera comique hotel reservation paris - comfort hotel opera comique hotel booking - last minute hotel deal
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		In the Center of Paris near the Stock Exchange Hall Not Far from the Main Opera Hall/Louvre Museums/French Department Stores Printemps * Galleries Lafayette At Walking Distance.
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	www.francehotelsandresorts.com /comforthoteloperacomique-hotel.html (277 words)

	Comfort Hotel Opera Comique, Paris - Hotel reviews and prices
		We stayed at Opera Comique in April 2004.
		Do not expect to have a very good night at the hotel opera comique rue d'amboise The bed (all of them actually) has springs but no soft matress (lit a ressorts sans matelas pour adoucir)It is not...
		I simply wish to advise anybody interested in this hotel that having stayed there for four nights the service and quality of the hotel could not have been of a lower standard.
	www.hotelsuperportal.com /Hotel-208584.html (299 words)

	opera comique - Definition of opera comique by Webster's Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		opera comique - Definition of opera comique by Webster's Online Dictionary
		opera comique - opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken
		bouffe, comic opera, light opera, opera, opera bouffe, operetta
	www.webster-dictionary.org /definition/opera%20comique (47 words)

	Boris Konstantinovich Bilinsky / Costume Design for a Russian Peasant Woman in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ballet La ...
		Costume Design for a Russian Peasant Woman in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ballet La Princesse Cygne produced by Bronislava Nijinska at the Th‚ƒtre National de l'Opera Comique, Paris 1932
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	Hotel Opera Comique, Hotels Paris, France Hotels, Ile de France, Paris Hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hotel Opera Comique, Hotels Paris, France Hotels, Ile de France, Paris Hotels
		This hotel is located near many of Paris' main attractions and will have a warm welcome for you...
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	www.realadventures.com /listings/1030516.htm (272 words)

	Carmen - complete companion to the opera, full libretto to the grand opera, 1875 version and opera-comique versions ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Carmen - complete companion to the opera, full libretto to the grand opera, 1875 version and opera-comique versions with modern translations, plot summary...
		BIZET, GEORGE [ INTRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION BY ELLEN H. Carmen - complete companion to the opera, full libretto to the grand opera, 1875 version and opera-comique versions with modern translations, plot summary...
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