At official functions, regardless of whether or not the monarch is personally present, the French : " Mesdames et Messieurs, ?la Reine du Canada . " In the mess of regiments in which the monarch holds an honorary appointment, the toast is modified slightly to be read as : " Ladies and Gentlemen, the Queen of Canada, our Colonel-in-Chief, " and in French : " Mesdames et Messieurs, ?la Reine du Canada, notre colonel en chef . " Where a band is present, the Royal Anthem is played following the recital of the Loyal Toast.
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At official functions, regardless of whether or not the monarch is personally present, the French : " Mesdames et Messieurs, ?la Reine du Canada . " In the mess of regiments in which the monarch holds an honorary appointment, the toast is modified slightly to be read as : " Ladies and Gentlemen, the Queen of Canada, our Colonel-in-Chief, " and in French : " Mesdames et Messieurs, ?la Reine du Canada, notre colonel en chef . " Where a band is present, the Royal Anthem is played following the recital of the Loyal Toast.
43.
She sang Carmen in Carmen by G . Bizet, Tosca in Tosca by G . Puccini, Giulietta Tales of Hoffmann by J . Offenbach, Musetta in La Boheme by G . Puccini, Waldnymph in Rusalka by A . Dvor�k, Echo in Ariadne on Naxos by R . Strauss, Jenny in Three Penny Opera by K . Weill, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana by P . Mascagni, Erigone the Virgin and La Voix Seule in Martyrdom Of Saint Sebastian by C . Debussy, M�tella in La Vie Parisienne, P�richole in La P�richole, Princess Hermia in Blue Beard, Ernestine in Monsieur Choufleuri, Ciboulette in Mesdames de la Halle by J . Offenbach, Lisa in the Land of Smiles and Hanna Glawari in the Merry Widow by F . Leh�r.
44.
The inaugural performance was on 5 July with Offenbach conducting four of his own works : a prologue called " Entrez, messieurs, mesdames ", a one-act " pi�ce d'occasion " written by Joseph M�ry and " Jules Servi�res " ( a nom de plume of Ludovic Hal�vy, who worked as a government official and needed to protect his reputation ); " Une nuit blanche ", a one-act " op�ra-comique " on a pastoral theme; " Arlequin barbier ", a pantomime utilizing themes from Rossini's " Il barbiere di Siviglia " arranged by " Alfred Lange " ( Offenbach ); and " Les deux aveugles ", a one-act " bouffonerie musicale " about two swindling " blind " Parisian beggars.
