List of operas and operettas by Emmanuel Chabrier

This is a List of operas and operettas by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894).

List

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre	Notes
Jean Hunyade	opera	4 acts	Henri Fouquier			composed 1867, incomplete, only 62 pages of manuscript survive, fragments used in Gwendoline and Briséïs
Le service obligatoire (with Jules Costé and René de Boisdeffre)	opérette bouffe	3 acts	Marion, Henri Meilhac, Fournier-Sarloveze	21 December 1872	Paris, Cercle de l'Union artistique	score lost
Fisch-Ton-Kan	opéra bouffe	1 act	Paul Verlaine and probably Lucien Viotti, after Thomas Sauvage and Gabriel de Lurieu's Fich-Tong-Khan ou L'orphelin de la Tartarie	31 March 1875	Paris, Cercle de l'Union Artistique	composed 1863–1864, incomplete
L'étoile	opéra bouffe	3 acts	Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo	28 November 1877	Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
Le Sabbat	opéra comique	1 act	Paul Armand Silvestre			composed 1877, incomplete, only some pages survive
La Girondine	opéra		Jules Claretie			composed 1878, lost or transferred to Les muscadins
Une éducation manquée	opérette	1 act	Eugène Leterrier and Albert Vanloo	1 May 1879	Paris, Cercle de la Presse
Les muscadins	opéra	4 acts	Jules Claretie and Paul Armand Silvestre			composed 1880, incomplete, only certain numbers survive in manuscript
Gwendoline	opéra	3 acts	Catulle Mendès	10 April 1886	Brussels, La Monnaie
Le roi malgré lui	opéra comique	3 acts	Émile de Najac and Paul Burani, revised by Jean Richepin, after Marguerite-Louise Virginie Ancelot's Le roi malgré lui	18 May 1887	Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart)
Briséïs, or Les amants de Corinthe	drame lyrique	3 acts	Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël, after Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth	13 January 1897	Paris, Concerts Lamoureux	composed 1888–91, Act 1 complete, some sketches for Act 2 and themes in manuscript [1]
Vaucochard et fils Ier	opérette		Paul Verlaine and Lucien Viotti	22 April 1941	Paris, Salle de l'Ancien Conservatoire	composed 1864, incomplete, only four surviving numbers

References

Notes

1. Delage, Roger. Emmanuel Chabrier. Fayard, Paris, 1999. Catalogue des oeuvres, pp. 685–715

Sources

• Sadie, Stanley (Ed.) (1994) [1992]. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. vol. 1, A–D, chpt: "Chabrier, (Alexis-)Emmanuel" by Myriam Soumagnac. New York: MacMillan. ISBN 0-935859-92-6.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
• Operone page on Chabrier, accessed 31 March 2011