Le voyage dans la lune (operetta) but due to the need to raise the necessary money he did not take up the project. Eventually Albert Vizentini, the new directeur of the Gaîté, took up the idea, and Offenbach's contribution was limited to that of composer. Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier, in association with Arnold Mortier (columnist at Figaro), wrote the libretto. They were hoping for a repeat of the success of the novels of Jules Verne (another, the novel "Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours", had been adapted for the stage at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin by Verne himself in 1874) and the
Le diable à quatre (opera) reverses the spell. Le diable à quatre (opera) Le diable à quatre ("The Devil to Pay") is an opéra comique in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The French-language libretto is by Michel-Jean Sedaine and Pierre Baurans, after a translation by Claude-Pierre Patu of the 1731 ballad opera by Charles Coffey entitled "The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos’d". It was first performed at Laxenburg on May 28, 1759. The work was a popular success. Joseph Haydn used a melody from it, ""Je n’aimais pas le tabac beaucoup" (I didn’t like tobacco much)" in the first movement of his