Word: veillon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first. It was originally a French play called Le Réveillon (The Awakening), written by sometime Offenbach librettists Henry Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy in 1872, and based on a Berlin comedy of 1851. Strauss set a German adaptation to music two years later. Since then, it has been called, in various productions, A Wonderful Night, Fly-by-Night, The Merry Countess, Champagne Sec, etc., and, in the latest Broadway version (TIME, Nov. 9, 1942), Rosalinda...
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