question: Who wrote the opera that was described as A New Grand Opera Bouffe Feerie, in Four Acts and Nine Tableaux, and was English Folklore?
answer: Jacques Offenbach
context: Title: Jérusalem
  Passage: Jérusalem is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi.  The libretto was to be an adaptation and partial translation of the composer's original 1843 Italian opera, "I Lombardi alla prima crociata".  It was the one opera which he regarded as the most suitable for being translated into French and, taking Eugène Scribe's advice, Verdi agreed that a French libretto was to be prepared by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, who had written the libretto for Donizetti's most successful French opera, "La favorite".  The opera received its premiere performance at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris on 26 November 1847.  The maiden production was designed by Paul Lormier (costumes), Charles Séchan, Jules Diéterle and Édouard Desplechin (sets of Act I, Act II, scene 1, Act III scene 1, and Act IV), and Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry (sets for Act II, scene 2 and Act III, scene 2).
  Title: Ascanio
  Passage: Ascanio is a grand opera in five acts and seven tableaux by composer Camille Saint-Saëns.  The opera's French libretto, by Louis Gallet, is based on the 1852 play "Benvenuto Cellini" by French playwright Paul Meurice which was in turn based on the 1843 historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, père.  The name was changed to "Ascanio" to avoid confusion with the Berlioz opera "Benvenuto Cellini".  The opera premiered on March 21, 1890, at the Académie Nationale de Musique in Paris, in costumes designed by Charles Bianchini and sets by Jean-Baptiste Lavastre and Eugène Carpezat (acts I; II, scene 2; and III), Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon and Marcel Jambon (act II, scene 1).
  Title: Lady Sarashina (opera)
  Passage: Lady Sarashina is an opera in nine tableaux by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös to a libretto by Mari Mezei, based on "As I crossed a Bridge of Dreams", fragments of an 11th-century diary (Japan, 1008).  It premiered on 4 March 2008 at the Opéra National de Lyon.  The opera is the result of a commission by the opera in Lyon; it was broadcast in full on France Musique on 27 September 2008.
  Title: Conchita (opera)
  Passage: Conchita is an opera in four acts and six scenes by composer Riccardo Zandonai.  The work uses an Italian language libretto by Maurizio Vaucaire and Carlo Zangarini which is based on Pierre Louÿs's 1898 novel "La Femme et le pantin".  The work premièred in Milan at the Teatro dal Verme on 14 October 1911 with soprano Tarquinia Tarquini, who later married Zandonai in 1917, in the title role.  Her portrayal was lauded by critics and she went on to perform Conchita at the Royal Opera, London (1912), the Cort Theatre in San Francisco (1912), the Philarmonic Auditorium in Hollywood (1912), the Heilig Theatre in Portland (1912), the Metropolitan Opera House in Philadelphia (1912), the Chicago Grand Opera Company (1913), the Metropolitan Opera in New York City (1913), and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (1913).
  Title: James Westman
  Passage: James Westman (born September 16, 1972) is a Canadian baritone known for his interpretation of the Verdi, Puccini and bel canto operatic repertoire, and particularly his signature role of Germont in "La traviata", which he has sung in over 150 performances, with opera companies such as San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Graz Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Opéra de Montréal, Los Angeles Opera, Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, Canadian Opera Company, Boston Lyric Opera, Cologne Opera, Vancouver Opera, English National Opera, San Diego Opera, Dallas Opera, Utah Opera, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis.  On January 29, 2011 Westman created the lead role of Sandy Keith In the world premiere of Bramwell Tovey's The Inventor.  In 2017 he played Sir John A. MacDonald in Harry Somers's Louis Riel for the Canadian Opera Company's tribute to Canada's 150th celebrations.  As a recitalist, he has performed for the Marilyn Horne Foundation, Aldeburgh Connection, Aldeburgh Festival, Musikverein, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Morgan Library & Museum, Koerner Hall, Carnegie Hall, Saito Kinen Festival in Japan, Stratford Summer Music, British Broadcasting Corporation, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  Westman first came to attention at the age of twelve when he was the first boy soprano to perform and record Mahler "4th Symphony" with Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra in 1984.  Westman is regularly featured as the Anthem singer for the Toronto Maple Leafs and numerous other NHL franchises.  Four of Westman's recordings have been nominated for a Juno Award.  Two recordings nominated for a Grammy Award.
  Title: Whittington (opera)
  Passage: Whittington is an opera (described in the premiere programme as 'A New Grand Opera Bouffe Feerie, in Four Acts and Nine Tableaux) with music by Jacques Offenbach, based on the legend of "Dick Whittington and His Cat".  It was premiered in a spectacular production at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 26 December 1874.  "Whittington" is the only major work of Offenbach to have received its premiere in London, and came between the incidental music for "La Haine" and his third version of "Geneviève de Brabant".
  Title: Sigurd (opera)
  Passage: Sigurd is an opera in four acts and nine scenes by the French composer Ernest Reyer on a libretto by Camille du Locle and Alfred Blau.  Like Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung", the story is based on the Nibelungenlied and the Eddas, with some crucial differences from the better known Wagnerian version (the role of the supernatural is limited and replaced in large part by fate; the initial version of the libretto with a prologue set in heaven was later cut out).  The whole opera can best be described as an epic with techniques of the grand opera.
  Title: Atlas (opera)
  Passage: Atlas is an opera in three acts composed by Meredith Monk who also wrote the libretto and choreographed the dances.  It is scored for 18 voices and a small chamber orchestra which includes a shawm and a glass harmonica.  The story is very loosely based on the life and writings of the explorer Alexandra David-Néel and is told primarily through wordless vocal sounds with brief interjections of spoken text in Mandarin Chinese and English.  The opera was co-commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia.  It premiered at Houston Grand Opera in February 1991, followed by performances that same year in Philadelphia and Minneapolis.  It subsequently toured in the US and Europe and had its New York premiere in May 1992 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  Title: Dick Whittington and His Cat
  Passage: Dick Whittington and His Cat is the name of English folklore surrounding the real-life Richard Whittington (c. 1354–1423), wealthy merchant and later Lord Mayor of London, telling a story of how he supposedly escaped his poverty-stricken childhood and made his fortune thanks to the ratting abilities of his cat.  However, the real Whittington did not come from a poor family of common stock, and there is no compelling evidence supporting the stories about the cat, or even whether he owned one.
  Title: Edinburgh Grand Opera
  Passage: Edinburgh Grand Opera is Scotland's oldest existing grand opera company, founded in 1955 by Richard Telfer.  This Edinburgh Music Society is run by its non-professional chorus with advice and support from the professional Artistic and Musical Directors and Designers it engages.  It was originally known as the Edinburgh Grand Opera Group, and it has also been referred to as Edinburgh Grand Opera Company.  Its soloists are a mixture of amateur, semi-professional and professional singers from Scotland and abroad, many of whom are students or graduates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (previously the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance).  It was the first amateur company to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.
citations: Whittington (opera) Dick Whittington and His Cat