Saturday, June 8, 1872
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THE Sardou-Offenbachian féerie, Le Roi Carotte, which was announced for performance at the Gaieté in. Paris in 1870, but did not appear till early in the present year, bas been brought out at the Alhambra Palace Theatre. The music is in the stereotyped Offenbachian style, and, musically speaking, the piece can hardily be termed up to the standard of his former compositions. The words also, which have been “adapted” from the French, lose much of their point in translation, and the force (…)
Le Roi Carotte