FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT, fey'cle masdam ifego, La. Opera bouffe in three acts by Charles Lecocq (libretto by Clairville, Siraudin and Konig) first produced at Brus sels in November 1872 and shortly thereafter at Paris. With this operetta Lecocq placed himself well in the forefront of the group of gifted men, of whom Jacques Offenbach was the leader who contributed so much to the gaiety of the Second Empire. Indeed the music was so lively, clever and characteristic and made such a hit (the original production ran 500 consecutive nights), that Offenbach's laurels seemed to be endangered. The plot, laid in Paris, in the period of the French Revolution, is chiefly concerned with the doings of Clairette, child of the market and daughter - of the late Madame Angot and Ange Piton, a revolutionary street singer, whose political songs invariably get him into trouble. Their paths cross those of Larivaudiere, a powerful police official and Mlle. Lange, comedienne and
favorite of Barras. But all the complications are at last happily disentangled in a more than ordinarily coherent manner. There is not a dull page of music in the score and many of the numbers are familiar even to those who have never heard a performance of the oper etta. The couplets that tell the story of Madame Angot de mareep) and the Revolutionary song les rois, race proscrite”, in the first act, the charming sen timental duet of Clairette and Mlle. Lange, the irresistible chorus of conspirators (•Quand on and the waltz finale of the second and in the third act the sparkling quarrel coup lets ((AM c'est done toi°) of Clairette and Mlle. Lange and the eMme. Angot was my mother° are only a few of the many bright numbers..