# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacques-offenbach
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:19:08.203Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Cologne in 1819, the son of a synagogue cantor, Offenbach arrived at the Paris Conservatoire at 14, left after a year, and spent two decades as a cellist and conductor. Finding the Opéra-Comique uninterested in his comic pieces, he leased a small Champs-Élysées theatre in 1855 and staged more than two dozen of his own works in three years. Orphée aux enfers arrived in 1858 with its celebrated can-can and exceptional reception; through the 1860s he delivered at least eighteen full-length operettas — La belle Hélène, La Vie parisienne, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, La Périchole — that traveled to Vienna, London, and New York on the strength of melody and sexual intrigue lightly satirizing Napoleon III's court. The Franco-Prussian War and the empire's fall in 1870 left him out of favor in Paris for his German birth and imperial ties, but he remained successful abroad and re-established himself in the 1870s with revivals and a US tour. He died in 1880 before finishing The Tales of Hoffmann, which entered the repertory in versions completed by others.