Apothicaire et perruquier

Apothicaire et perruquier (Apothecary and Wigmaker/Hairdresser) is a one-act opérette-bouffe with music by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Élie Frébault [fr], first performed in 1861, one of six new works he premiered that year.

[2] The libretto ('opérette du temps jadis' [operetta from times gone by]) was first set to music by Laurent de Rillé but the score was lost.

The premiere of Offenbach's work was on 17 October 1861 at the Salle Choiseul, Paris, and it shared the bill on the opening night of the following season.

[3] The Offenbach-Keck critical edition of Apothicaire et perruquier was first performed at the Kurtheater, Bad Ems, Germany, (in German) on the 1 June 2007, with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln conducted by Helmuth Froschauer,[4] with soloists Mojca Erdmann, Jörg Sabrowski, Leandro Fischetti and Michael Gann.

While Boudinet goes to check the final preparations of the ceremony, Chilpéric alone, in a Romance, muses on a girl with the most beautiful hair he once met in Carpentras.