His opera-ballet Rhine Spirits came after a stint as director of his own theater, the Bouffes-Parisiens, where he developed the light French comic opera for which he is primarily famous, despite the success of The Tales of Hoffmann.
A suite of this composer's music entitled Gaite Parisienne remains popular to this day, while his only grand opera was orchestrated and provided with recitatives after his death by Ernest Guiraud. Successes like La Perichole and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein led Rossini to dub him "our little Mozart of the Champs-Elysees". His opera-ballet Rhine Spirits came after a stint as director of his own theater, the Bouffes-Parisiens, where he developed the light French comic opera for which he is primarily famous, despite the success of The Tales of Hoffmann. FTP, who was this composer of Orpheus in the Underworld?
A suite of this composer's music entitled Gaite Parisienne remains popular to this day, while his only grand opera was orchestrated and provided with recitatives after his death by Ernest Guiraud.
Jacques (or Jacob) Offenbach