Title: Le postillon de Lonjumeau
Content:  The opera was premiered by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle de la Bourse in Paris on 13 October 1836. Performances followed at the St James's Theatre, London on 13 March 1837, and in New Orleans at the Théâtre d'Orléans on 19 April 1838. Recent productions have been mounted in the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden (from 4 August 2000) and at the Grand Théâtre, Dijon, (from 30 March 2004 under Philippe Cambreling, with Isabelle Poulenard (Madeleine / Madame de Latour). The latter was a co-production of Opéra Paris-Sud and Opéra de Dijon. The work was performed in Paris for the first time in 125 years in a new production at the Opèra Comique in March 2019 with Michael Spyres in the title role, in a production by Michel Fau. Sébastien Rouland conducted, with Florie Valiquette as Madeleine.
Title: Le postillon de Lonjumeau
Content:  Le postillon de Lonjumeau (The Postillion of Lonjumeau) is an opéra-comique in three acts by Adolphe Adam to a French libretto by Adolphe de Leuven and Léon Lévy Brunswick. The opera has become the most successful of Adam's works, and the one by which (apart from his ballet Giselle and his Christmas carol Cantique de Noël) he is best known outside his native France. The opera is known for the difficult aria "Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire" which has been called a test for tenors because of the demanding high D, or D5, at the end of the aria.
Title: Le postillon de Lonjumeau
Content:  In 1936 the opera was loosely adapted into an Austrian-Swiss comedy film The Postman from Longjumeau directed by Carl Lamac.
Title: The Postman from Longjumeau
Content:  The Postman from Longjumeau (German: Der Postillon von Lonjumeau) is a 1936 Austrian-Swiss musical comedy film directed by Carl Lamac and starring Carl Esmond, Rose Stradner and Alfred Neugebauer. The film is known by several alternative titles including Der König lächelt – Paris lacht (The King Smiles – Paris Laughs). It is loosely based on the 1836 opera Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam. In eighteenth-century France, a Postilion from Longjumeau is summoned by Madame de Pompadour to sing in her opera company, forcing him to be separated from his wife.
Title: Longjumeau
Content:  Longjumeau is the setting for the opera-comique Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam where it is presented as an early 19th-century rural community. The opera was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 13 October 1836. Performances followed in London at the St. James Theatre on 13 March 1837, and in New Orleans at the Théâtre d'Orléans on 19 April 1838. Longjumeau is twinned with Pontypool in South Wales, UK.
Title: Léon Lévy Brunswick
Content: With Adolphe de Leuven: Le mariage au tambour. Comédie en trois actes, mêlée de chant. (Théâtre français en prose. Series 4, 8.) Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1855,. ; With Adolphe de Leuven, Adolphe Adam, Carl Friedrich Wittmann: Der Postillon von Lonjumeau. Komische Oper in drei Aufzügen. (Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, 2749.; Opernbücher in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek, 12.; Reclams Universal-Bibliothek/Opernbücher, 12.) Reclam, Leipzig um 1920,. 
Title: Georges Lonque
Content:  and France to study music. During these travels he met composers such as Richard Strauss, Robert Heger and Gabriel Perné. Lonque played the violin at the orchestra of the Royal Opera of Ghent (1914-1932). In 1935, he found the Foyer de la Musique de Chambre. He also conducted the Ghent Opera Concerts during the Second World War. Lonque worked at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent (1924-1965). He also succeeded Karel De Sutter as director of the Music Academy of Ronse between 1938 and 1965. He gained several prices for his musical output, among which a golden medal by the city of Paris for his activities in France.
Title: René Massis
Content: Adam's Le postillon de Lonjumeau - Bijou. ; Auber's Manon Lescaut - Marquis d'Hérigny. ; Donizetti's La Favorite - Alphonse XI. ; Méhul's Joseph - Siméon. 
Title: The Postman from Longjumeau
Content: Carl Esmond – Chapelou, the Postman from Lonjumeau ; Rose Stradner – Madelaine ; Alfred Neugebauer – Louis XV of France ; Thekla Ahrens – Marquise de Pompadour ; Leo Slezak – Count de Latour ; Lucie Englisch – Lucienne ; Rudolf Carl – Bijou ; Hans Thimig – Pierre Touche, village barber ; Richard Eybner – Marquis de Corcy ; Fritz Imhoff – Mayor ; Joe Furtner – Faviere, Corcy's Secretary ; Tibor Halmay – Ballet Master ; Carl Hauser – Policeman ; Irmgard Alberti – Old Woman with love potion ; Hans-Heinz Bollzmann – Singer 
Title: Georges Lonque
Content:  Georges Lonque (Ghent, 8 November 1900 – Brussels, 3 March 1967) was a Belgian composer, music teacher, conductor and violinist. His father was Séraphin Lonque and his younger brother was Armand Lonque. All three of them composed music.

Question: Who was the composer of Le postillon de Lonjumeau?
Answer: Adolphe Adam.
Adolphe Charles Adam.
Adolphe-Charles Adam.
00000146552 IPI.