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Désirée is a operetta in two acts with music by John Phillip Sousa and libretto by Edward M. Taber. The libretto was later revised and updated by Jerrold Fisher and William Martin. Based on the English comedy Our Wife by John Maddison Morton, it premiered May 1, 1884 at The National Theater, Washington D.C. It was one of the first American operettas and was billed as "America's First Comic Opera" though it was based on an English comedy set in France.

Roles

Role	Voice Part
Marquis de Lavarre, Colonel of the King's Musketeers	tenor
Count de Courville, Lieutenant of the Musketeers	baritone
Pomaret, a mercer	baritone or tenor
Dumont, Sergeant of the Musketeers & orderly to the Marquis	baritone
Antoine, Corporate of the Musketeers	tenor
Désirée, Pomaret's daughter	soprano
Marie, Pomaret's niece	mezzo-soprano
Laurie, a schoolmistress	contralto
Gertrude, a schoolgirl & companion of Desiree	mezzo-soprano
Rose, another schoolgirl & companion of Desiree	mezzo-soprano
Ensemble

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