thumb|upright|Jacques Offenbach by Nadar, c. 1860s
thumb|upright|Jacques Offenbach by Nadar, c. 1860s
Barkouf is an opéra bouffe in three acts premiered in 1860 with music composed by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Eugène Scribe and Henry Boisseaux, after Abbé Blanchet, the fourth of his Contes Orientaux entitled Barkouf et Mani. The title role is a dog. It was the first work by the composer to be performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, but after its initial performances was not performed again until 2018.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).