Unlikely to replace Massenet’s version in anyone’s affections.
Category: German composers
27. Der Trompeter von Säckingen – Viktor Nessler
A rather schmaltzy German opera, with a wonderful tenor aria.
23. Tromb-al-ca-zar (Jacques Offenbach)
An innkeeper in the Basses-Pyrénées thinks that a theatrical troupe are really bandits and brigands.


