Le postillon de Lonjumeau

The opera has become the most successful of Adam's works, and the one by which (apart from his ballet Giselle and his Christmas carol Cantique de Noël) he is best known outside his native France.

Recent productions have been mounted in the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden (from 4 August 2000) and at the Grand Théâtre, Dijon, (from 30 March 2004 under Philippe Cambreling, with Isabelle Poulenard (Madeleine / Madame de Latour).

coach-mounted coachman), and his innkeeper wife Madeleine decide to consult a clairvoyant to ensure that their marriage will be joyous.

Days into the marriage the Marquis de Corcy, who is director of the Paris Opera, arrives at the couple's inn and is immediately smitten by Madeleine, but doesn't say anything to her.

When the Marquis arrives with the police, she reveals her deception to all: the couple have married twice and vow from that day on to love like good village people.

In 1936 the opera was loosely adapted into an Austrian-Swiss comedy film The Postman from Longjumeau directed by Carl Lamac.