Boule-de-Neige
1871 opéra-bouffe by Jacques Offenbach / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boule-de-Neige is an opéra bouffe in three acts premiered in 1871 with music composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu, adapted from that by Eugène Scribe and Henry Boisseaux for Offenbach's earlier Barkouf (1860).[1] The opera's title refers to a bear which becomes a ruler.