Editing Adolphe Adam (section)

===Early successes===
[[File:Le-Mal-du-pays-by-Adolphe-Adam.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|''Le Mal du pays'', Adam's first opera, 1827|alt=stage scene with a woman standing between two men]]
During 1824–1827 Adam wrote or arranged the music for several one-act vaudevilles given at the Gymnase and the [[Théâtre du Vaudeville]], including four written by Scribe as sole or co-author. In late 1827 Scribe provided the text for Adam's first opera, a one-act comic piece, ''Le Mal du pays, ou La Batelière de Brientz'' (Homesickness, or the Bargewoman of Brientz), comprising an overture and eleven numbers; it was produced at the Gymnase on 28 December 1827. A little over a year later, in February 1829, Adam's second one-act opera, ''Pierre et Catherine'', was given in a double bill at the [[Opéra-Comique]] with Auber and Scribe's ''La Fiancée'', and ran for more than 80 performances.<ref name=grove/>

Seven months after the premiere of ''Pierre et Catherine'' Adam married Sara Lescot, a member of the chorus at the Vaudeville. Adam's biographer [[Arthur Pougin]] describes the marriage as "an important and unfortunate event for him".<ref>Pougin (1877), p. 63</ref> By Pougin's account, Lescot manoeuvred Adam into marriage, and on his side – and later hers also – it was a loveless union; they separated in 1835.<ref>Pougin (1877), p. 106</ref> Their only child, Léopold-Adrien, born in 1832, killed himself in 1851.<ref>Lavignac, p. 3496; and [https://francearchives.fr/facomponent/edb55b54d7e6022b1c4525f59f0f42d7d4593ad9 "Notoriété après décès de Léopold-Adrien Adam"], France Archives. Retrieved 11 September 2021</ref>

Adam's first full length operas were premiered in 1829: ''Le jeune propriétaire et le vieux fermier'' and ''Danilowa'', [[opéra comique|opéras comiques]] given at the [[Théâtre des Nouveautés]] and the Opéra-Comique respectively. ''Danilowa'' ran well until Parisian life was disrupted by the [[July Revolution]]. That, and an outbreak of [[cholera]], led Adam to move to London; this was at the suggestion of his brother-in-law, Pierre François Laporte, manager of the [[Her Majesty%27s Theatre#Pierre François Laporte|King's Theatre, Haymarket]]. In 1832 Laporte leased the [[Royal Opera House|Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]], and in October, as an afterpiece to ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', he presented [[James Planché]]'s ''His First Campaign'', a "Military Spectacle" about the [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|Duke of Marlborough]], with music by Adam.<ref>"Covent Garden Theatre", ''The Sun'', 24 September 1832, p. 1; and "Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden", ''Morning Herald'', 26 September 1832, p. 2</ref> The piece was received with "loud and general plaudits",<ref>"The Theatres", ''English Chronicle and Whitehall Evening Post'', 2 October 1832, p. 4</ref> but ''The Dark Diamond'', a historical melodrama in three acts, which followed on 5 November, failed to repeat its success, and Adam went home to Paris in December. He returned briefly to London when his ballet ''Faust'' was presented at the King's Theatre in February and March 1833.<ref name=grove/>