This man wrote the popular opera-ballet The Hamadryads, though better regarded was his ballet The Corsair.
This man gained early success with some piano transcriptions on themes from the comic opera La dame blanche and the one-act vaudeville show The American Uncle. Minor successes by this man include La Fille du Danube and Les Mohicans, and The Dark Diamond was a disappointing follow-up to his "military spectacle," His First Campaign. This man wrote the popular opera-ballet The Hamadryads, though better regarded was his ballet The Corsair. His major attempt at "grand opera," Richard in Palestine, bombed at the box office, while a libretto by Eugene Scribe that was originally intended for Daniel Aubert provided the text for his finest opera, Giralda. This composer is much better-known for a work in which the title character encounters a gang of feminist elemental spirits in the forest who want to murder her boyfriend. For ten points name this prolific composer best-known for the ballet Giselle.
This man gained early success with some piano transcriptions on themes from the comic opera La dame blanche and the one-act vaudeville show The American Uncle.
{Adolphe Adam}