Les bavards, in English, The Chatterboxes is an opera bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach, with a French libretto by Charles-Louis- tienne Nuitter based on a story originally by Cervantes, ‘Los dos habladores’.
Les bavards was originally created as Bavard et bavarde in one-act form and performed at the Kurtheater, Bad Ems in June 1862. It became Die Schwätzerin von Saragossa for Vienna in November of that year, and was produced in its final two-act form at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris (Salle Choiseul) on 20 February 1863.
This recording is from Paris on 25 /02/1958 and features: Annick Simon, Fanely Revoil, Aime Doniat, Andre Vessiere, Rene Lenoty, Gerard Friedman, conducted by Pierre Capdevielle.
