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Excerpt from The New Opera Glass: Containing the Plots of the Most Popular Operas and a Short Biography of the ComposersB. July 24th 1803 as the son of a French musician and professor of the conservatory at Paris. In 1817 he attended the conservatory of his native town, where he was instructed by Boieldieu. His first work was Pierre and Catherine. In 1836 he published his second opera: The Postillion of\ Longjumeau, which was very favourably r...

Excerpt from The New Opera Glass: Containing the Plots of the Most Popular Operas and a Short Biography of the ComposersB. July 24th 1803 as the son of a French musician and professor of the conservatory at Paris. In 1817 he attended the conservatory of his native town, where he was instructed by Boieldieu. His first work was Pierre and Catherine. In 1836 he published his second opera: The Postillion of\ Longjumeau, which was very favourably r...

The New Opera Glass began life as a guidebook to the more popular operas which the English speaking tourist might expect to find being performed in the opera houses of Europe in the nineteenth century. After three blameless editions it fell into the hands of one Fr. Charley, who proceeded to update the book in his own inimitable way. In his preface to the fourth edition, Charley writes 'This new edition, revised and augmented from the author t...