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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 known for the difficult aria "Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire" which has been called a test for tenors because of the demanding high D, or D5, at the end of the aria.

The opera was premiered by the Opéra Comique at the Salle de la Bourse in Paris on 13 October 1836. Performances followed at the St James's Theatre, London on 13 March 1837, and in New Orleans at the Théâtre d'Orléans on 19 April 1838. Recent productions have been mounted in the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden (from 4 August 2000) and at the Grand Théâtre, Dijon, (from 30 March 2004 under Philippe Cambreling, with Isabelle Poulenard (Madeleine / Madame de Latour). The latter was a co production of Opéra Paris Sud and Opéra de Dijon. The work was performed in Paris for the first time in 125 years in a new production at the Opèra Comique in March 2019 with Michael Spyres in the title role, in a production by Michel Fau. Sébastien Rouland conducted, with Florie Valiquette as Madeleine.

+RoleVoice typePremiere cast, 13 October 1836(Conductor: Henri Valentino)Madeleine, Chapelou's wifedramatic coloratura sopranoGeneviève Aimé Zoë PrévostRoselight lyric soprano or soubrette Mme RoyChapelou, a coachmantenorJean Baptiste CholletLe Marquis de Corcy, head of the Paris Opérabaritone Edmond Jules Delaunay RicquierBiju, Chapelou's friendbass baritone François Louis HenryBourdonbass M. Roy Chorus

In 1936 the opera was loosely adapted into an Austrian Swiss comedy film The Postman from Longjumeau directed by Carl Lamac.

17–25 September 1985, Salle Garnier, Monte Carlo : Thomas Fulton conducting the Orchestre philharmonique de Monte Carlo, with John Aler (Chapelou / Saint Phar), François Le Roux (de Corcy), Jean Philippe Lafont (Biju / Alcindor), June Anderson (Madeleine / Madame de Latour), Daniel Ottewaere (Bourdon), Balvina de Courcelles (Rose). (EMI 557106 2)
DVD:2020, filmed at the Opéra Comique, Paris : Sebastien Rouland conducting the Orchestre de l'Opera de Rouen Normandie and Accentus chorus, with Michael Spyres (Chapelou/Saint Phar), Florie Valiquette (Madeleine/Madame de Latour),Franck Leguerinel (Le Marquis de Corcy), Laurent Kubla (Biju/Alcindor), Julien Clement (Bourdon), Michel Fau (Rose). Naxos Cat: NBD0112V