La Poupée
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La Poupée ("The doll") is a French opéra comique, consisting of a prelude and three acts, by Maurice Ordonneau (libretto) and Edmond Audran (composer).
Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann[], the opera opened at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris, on 21 October 1896.
An English libretto in two acts was written by Arthur Sturgess and played at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London from 24 February 1897 for 576 performances. A Broadway production was also done in 1897
The story - and no doubt the opera's success - inspired a film by Ernst Lubitsch film (called Die Puppe in German) in 1919 German and most famously, the ballet Coppélia
1903: Performed in English (as La Poupee) in the Opera House, Cape Town, by the Mouillot-De Jong Company.
