La poupée (opera)

La poupée (sic on capitalization: in French; English: The Doll). Edmond Audran, composer. Maurice Ordonneau, libretto. Based on E.T.A. Hoffman's Der Sandmann. Opening performance Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris, 21 October 1896.

According to the Wikipedia entry, "La poupée (The Doll) is an opéra comique in a prelude and three acts [...], about a friar who falsely promises to marry his rich uncle's daughter to fool his uncle into giving money to the monastery; the scheme involves creating a doll that looks like the daughter. The uncle's daughter, however, turns the scheme on its head and fools the friar into actually marrying her by substituting herself for the doll."[1]

See entry for COPPÉLIA and note that the film LA POUPÉE (1962) is on the theme of "the doll" but quite different.

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