Une demoiselle en loterie

Une demoiselle en loterie is a one-act opérette bouffe of 1857 with music by Jacques Offenbach.

[1] The premiere of Une demoiselle en loterie took place on 27 July 1857 at the Bouffes-Parisiens (Salle Lacaze), Paris, on the same bill as a new production of an 1855 one-act work, La Momie de Roscoco by Eugène Ortolan, words by Émile de Najac.

[2] It was later performed at a café-concert in Brussels in July 1858 by Offenbach's company in Bad Ems in August 1858 and was adapted for Vienna in 1862 and 1864.

[3] Démêloir has been trying for a fortnight to sell 200 lottery tickets at 1,000 francs each, walking back and forth from the Madeleine to the Bastille.

Aspasie claims that the Count Arthur de Blago Colonera Cardinos, who arrived directly by train from Cuba, has already bought ticket number 100.