Veronique (operetta)

Véronique is an opéra comique or operetta in three acts composed by André Messager. The French libretto was by Georges Duval and Albert Vanloo. Véronique is Messager’s most enduring operatic work and was widely performed in France, London and elsewhere in the fifty years after its premiere in 1898.

Véronique was first performed at Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, on 10 December 1898. Messager's most successful operetta, it was revived frequently in France during the first part of the 20th century. Revivals played at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques on 30 January 1909, the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique on 1 March 1920, for which Messager composed a new waltz (with Edmée Favart, Périer and Tarriol-Baugé), and at the Théâtre Mogador on 17 April 1943 (with Suzanne Baugé, Maurice Vidal and Hélene Lavoisier), in a grand production that, according to Richard Traubner, "overpowered its fragility".

After a one-off charity performance at the Opéra-Comique on 7 February 1925 with Favart, Baugé and Tarriol-Baugé, conducted by Albert Wolff, the work received its first production at the Opéra-Comique in 1978-79 (with Danielle Chlostawa and François le Roux) and 1980-81 (with Marie-Christine Pontou and Gino Quilico). More recently it was mounted at the Théâtre du Châtelet in January 2008, directed by Fanny Ardant.

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