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La Fille de Madame Angot
Madame Angot
also: Мадам Анго
Charles Lecocq's hugely popular 1872 comic opera, whose tunes the embarrassed doctor and justice of the peace whistle to cover their awkwardness after being denied Otletaev's cigarettes.
Reading notes
- The Twenty-Ninth of June (the tale of a hunter who never hits his mark) §40 Madame Angot
La Fille de Madame Angot, Charles Lecocq's hugely popular 1872 comic opera, whose tunes were common enough to whistle absentmindedly -- exactly what the embarrassed doctor and justice of the peace do to cover their awkwardness.
- The Stationmaster §10 Madame Angot
"La Fille de Madame Angot," a hugely popular French comic opera (Charles Lecocq, 1872); a tune from it, whistled offstage in the dark, is what first betrays the approaching husband.