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Madame Chrysanthème (Madam Chrysanthemum) is an opera, described as a comédie lyrique, with music by André Messager to a libretto by Georges Hartmann and Alexandre André, after the semi-autobiographical novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) by Pierre Loti. It consists of four acts with a prologue and an epilogue and is set in Nagasaki, Japan. [1]
The Chrysanthème Papers: The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème and Other Documents of French Japonisme. University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 978-0-8248-3345-9. Van Rij, Jan (2001). Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, and the search for the real Cho-Cho-San. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1-880656-52-3.
Madame Chrysanthème may refer to: Madame Chrysanthème, 1887 story by Pierre Loti; Madame Chrysanthème, 1893 opera by André Messager, based on the novel This page ...
Messager in 1921. André Charles Prosper Messager (French:; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor.His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886) and opéra comique Véronique (1898) have had lasting success; Les p'tites Michu (1897) and ...
Loti (right) with "Chrysanthème" and Pierre le Cor in Japan, 1885. In 1890 Loti published Au Maroc , the record of a journey to Fez in company with a French embassy, and Le Roman d'un enfant ( The Story of a Child ), a somewhat fictionalized recollection of Loti's childhood that would greatly influence Marcel Proust .
Fans is the second album by Malcolm McLaren, released in 1984. It was an attempt at fusing opera with 1980s R&B and contains adaptations of pieces from famous operas such as Madama Butterfly and Carmen. The opera recordings were made at the Unitarian Church, Belmont, Massachusetts by Stephen Hague and Walter Turbitt. [2] [3] [4] [5]
His best–known work in this field was the music for the 1953 British war film The Cruel Sea, [9] and his other scores included many popular British films, such as The Captive Heart (1946), School for Secrets (1946), Uncle Silas (1947), Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), Where No Vultures Fly (1951), West ...
Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy (née Boyvin d'Hardancourt; 13 December 1744 – 5 December 1824) was a French musician and composer.Born in Paris, she lived in Passy and played and composed for the harpsichord and the piano.