ABSTRACT
THE RAGE for Offenbach in London can be traced back to the season of his one-act operettas at the St. James’s Theatre in 1857, presented by the Bouffes-Parisiens company under the aegis of the composer. A few English-language Offenbach adaptations followed in the early 1860s. In 1865 Orphée aux Enfers played with some success as the endearingly titled Orpheus in the Haymarket. Bluebeard Repaired (Barbe-Bleue) appeared at the Olympic in June 1866 and that same month saw Helen, or Taken from the Greek at the Adelphi Theatre. La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein came over, in English, to the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in November 1867.
