La Poupée
La Poupée ("The doll") is a French opéra comique, consisting of a prelude and three acts, by Maurice Ordonneau (libretto, 1854–1916)[1] and Edmond Audran (composer, 1840–1901)[2].
Note: The title usually written La poupée in French publications.
The play is based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's popular short stories called Der Sandmann[3] ("the sandman") and Die Puppe ("The Doll"), first published in an 1817 book of stories titled Die Nachtstücke ("The Night Pieces"), which most famously also served as the source for the ballet Coppélia (1870) and for Act I of Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann[4](1881).
The Ordonneau and Audran comic 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 titled La Poupee). This was first 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_poup%C3%A9e
