To support himself he worked as a cellist at the Paris Opera-Comique, where his first work, the one-act opera Pepito, debuted.
To support himself he worked as a cellist at the Paris Opera-Comique, where his first work, the one-act opera Pepito, debuted. He followed up with more short operas, which included such hits as La belle Helene and The Parisian Life. In that thirty-year span he composed almost 90 operettas, many of them to librettos by Ludevic Halevy. The most successful was his Orpheus in the Underworld, but it was another opera, to which he had only completed the piano score by the time of his 1880 death, for which he would become most famous. FTP, name this French composer of Tales of Hoffman.
To support himself he worked as a cellist at the Paris Opera-Comique, where his first work, the one-act opera Pepito, debuted.
Jacques {Offenbach}