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''Le château à Toto'' (''Toto’s castle'') is an opéra bouffe in three acts of 1868 with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.〔Lamb A. Jacques Offenbach (List of stage works). In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.〕 It is situated in an important sequence of fifteen opera works and revivals by Offenbach between 1867 and 1869. ==Background== Offenbach began work on the piece in January 1868 while staying in Nice; he was also composing ''Les brigands'' and ''Vert-Vert'' at the time.〔 The piece was premiered in the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris but achieved nothing like the success of his previous venture at that theatre, ''La vie parisienne''.〔Yon, Jean-Claude. ''Jacques Offenbach.'' Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2000.〕 Despite having as many disguises as the earlier work, and some isolated successful numbers such as the ‘café-concert’ song of the rural postman (where he debates the merits of long or short legs, and the value of the penny-farthing), the work closed by the end of July.〔Harding J. ''Jacques Offenbach.'' John Calder, London, 1980.〕 After the initial run, a two-act version was staged at the Palais-Royal on 16 December 1868 with Lucy Arbell as Toto, but this closed by the end of the year. The work was seen at the Carltheater in Vienna in February 1869.〔 The critical edition of ''Le château à Toto'' in the Offenbach Edition Keck has been performed in Frankfurt (2003) and at the Offenbach Festival des Châteaux de Bruniquel (2008). Although no complete recording is available, excerpts have appeared on the anthologies 'Offenbach au menu'〔Laurent, F. Review of 'Offenbach au menu!' Maguelone CD MAG11188. ''Diapason'', January 2012 (598), p93.〕 and 'Entre Nous'.〔Milnes, R. Review of Entre Nous Opera Rara CD set. ''Opera'', November 2007, 1388-90.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Le château à Toto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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