| It is likely that the success of that ballet encouraged other ballet companies to stage their own ballets based on Offenbach potpourris. |
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| So what drew Offenbach to such uncharacteristic subject matter? |
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| However, the chief propagator of the classical operetta was Jacques Offenbach, who began with one-act works before expanding into evening-long scores. |
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| Christoph Gluck, Richard Strauss, Jacques Offenbach and many others set Greek mythological themes to music. |
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