Aim�e Opera Bouffe: Girofl�-Girofla

Event Information

Venue(s):
Lyceum Theatre

Event Type:
Opera

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
23 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

17 May 1875, Evening
18 May 1875, Evening
19 May 1875, Evening
20 May 1875, Evening
21 May 1875, Evening
22 May 1875, Matinee
22 May 1875, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
Giroflé-Girofla
aka Girofle Girofla
Composer(s): Lecocq
Text Author: Vanloo, Leterrier
Participants:  Aimée Opera Bouffe Company;  Mlle. [soprano] Vandame (role: Paquito);  Leontine [mezzo-soprano] Minelli (role: Marasquin);  Mlle. [contralto] Kidd (role: Aurore);  Charles De Quercy (role: Mourzouk);  [baritone] Valaire (role: Bolero);  Coralie Geoffroy (role: Giroflé-Girofla);  Mlle. [mezzo-soprano] Durel (role: Pedro)

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 16 May 1875, 11.

“Last week but one of the season.”

2)
Review: New York Clipper, 29 May 1875, 70.

“At the Lyceum Theatre, ‘Giroflé-Girofla,’ Lecocq’s charming opera, proved during the past week as attractive a card as on its first production in this city. The opera, although offering but little for the non-musical to remember and carry away as a reminiscence, has firmly established itself as a favorite with the public, being filled with a succession of brilliant numbers that grow upon the hearer at each repetition, and is imbued with a dramatic character that constantly arrests the attention. It has received a most creditable interpretation from the artists of the excellent bouffe company, and the large measure of popular success which it has attained is without doubt due to their clever exposition of this charming work.”