Directed by ALFRED VANDAM
Relayed from The Troxy Cinema
Boieldieu was so modest about his own work that, if the story be true, he used to take the completed sections of his early opera, The Caliph of Baghdad, to the Conservatoire in Paris where he was a professor, to ask his pupils for their verdict on the music. If they did not like it, he referred it to his colleague Menul.
He need have been in no doubt about the attractive qualities ot his music; nearly all the light-hearted and melodious operas won immediate success, and many of thtm held the stage for generations after his own day.