Le postillon de Lonjumeau

For the film, see The Postman from Longjumeau.
Le postillon de Lonjumeau
Opéra-comique by Adolphe Adam
Adam in 1850
Librettist
LanguageFrench
Premiere
13 October 1836 (1836-10-13)
Opéra-Comique, Paris

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 "in the mainstream of French opera comique, jam-packed with Gallic style and charm and musically quite sophisticated, with parody and pastiche lightly touched in". The well-known tenor Act one aria ('ronde') "Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire" includes the demanding high D, or D5, at the end.

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