Maître Péronilla: Overture

Composer: OFFENBACH, Jacques
  • Maître Péronilla is a 3-act operetta that premiered in Paris on March 13, 1878.1
  • The story is set in Spain and its complex plot follows the family of a chocolate maker from Madrid.2
  • Listen for: Offenbach includes castanets in the overture to give it a Spanish flavor.3

Sources

  1.  Andrew Lamb, “Offenbach, Jacques,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed December 10, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000020271.
  2.  Antonio de Almeida, “Offenbach by Offenbach,” liner notes to Offenbach: Can Can Overtures & Ballets, Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida, Philips 422057, CD, 1987.
  3. Ibid.

Cut IDs

42753