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Amable De Saint-Hilaire
Amable Vilain de Saint-Hilaire (born 30 November 1799) was a French dramatist whose plays have been performed on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Variétés, Théâtre de la Renaissance etc. Œuvres *1820: ''Écoutons ! ! !'', scènes improvisées, on the occasion of the birth of H.R.H. Mgr the duke of Bordeaux, with Emmanuel Lepeintre *1820: ''La pièce d'emprunt ou le compilateur'', comedy in 1 act, mingled with vaudevilles, with Edmond Crosnier, 1820 *1821: ''Jocrisse paria'', tragédie burlesque in 1 act and in verses, with Crosnier *1821: ''Le Solitaire ou l'Exilé du mont Sauvage'', melodrama in three acts, à grand spectacle *1822: ''La Fille à marier ou La Double éducation'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Ferdinand Laloue and Constant Ménissier *1822: ''Le Meurtrier, ou le Dévouement filial'', historical melodrama in 3 acts, à spectacle, with Crosnier *1823: ''La Chasse au renard'', vaudevill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dramatist
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand De Villeneuve
Ferdinand de Villeneuve (5 June 1801 – 27 September 1858) was a 19th-century French playwright. Short biography He made his debut in the theatre at the age of 21 by partnering with Charles Dupeuty, and began to be successful from 1823 onwards. In 1825, he founded the newspaper ''La Nouveauté'' with Dupeuty, Amable de Saint-Hilaire and Musnier Desclozeaux, a publication which became a daily. Co-director of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin with Anténor Joly from December 1835, he then directed, still with Joly, the Théâtre de la Renaissance in 1838 with its own funds. His plays were presented on several 19th-century Parisian stages, including the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and the Théâtre des Variétés. The painter and photographer Julien Vallou de Villeneuve was his brother. Works *1822: ''L'Arracheur de dents'', one-act folie-parade, mingled with couplets, with Charles Dupeuty *1822: ''Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Yves (1808–1871)
Saint-Yves (9 November 1808 – 23 July 1871) was the pen name of Édouard Déaddé, a 19th-century French playwright. Short biography He was born Ernest-Antoine-Edmond-Édouard Déaddé in Paris. An employee at the Interior ministry, he became known as vaudevilliste under the pen name Saint-Yves and published numerous articles in the ''Revue et gazette musicale'' under the pseudonym D.A.D. His numerous plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time, including the Théâtre du Panthéon, the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, the Théâtre de l'Ambigu, the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, and the Théâtre de la Gaîté. Several collaborative projects were discussed with Honoré de Balzac but none were realized. He was the managing director of the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Antoine from 31 December 1839 to January 1841.Wild 1989, p. 364. Works * ''Odette, ou la Petite reine'', chronique-vaudeville du temps de Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Simonnin
Antoine Simonnin, full name Antoine-Jean-Baptiste Simonnin, (Paris, 11 January 1780 – Paris, 14 May 1856) was a 19th-century French writer and dramatist. Simonnin wrote, alone or in collaboration, more than 200 comédies en vaudeville, parodies or fantaisies. He also published a collection of ''Chansons sacrées et profanes'' (1856, in-18). Works (alphabetical order) * ''Arlequin au café du bosquet, ou la Belle limonadière'', vaudeville épisodique, in 1 act; * ''Augusta, ou Comme on corrige une jeune personne'', two-act comédie en vaudeville, Théâtre des jeunes élèves de M. Louis Comte, 5 December 1832; * ''Belz et Buth'', folie-vaudeville in 2 acts, with Hilpert, Théâtre du Panthéon, 21 August 1839; * ''Caroline de Litchfield'', drame-vaudeville in 2 acts and in prose, with Brazier and Carmouche Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin, 10 February 1827; * ''Catherine II, ou l'Impératrice et le cosaque'', play in 2 acts, extravaganza, mingled with couplets, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Pillet
Léon Pillet (6 December 1803 – 20 March 1868),Huebner 1992. was a 19th-century French journalist, civil servant, and director of the Paris Opera from 1840 to 1847. A political appointee, he was probably the least successful director of the Paris Opera in the 19th century.Fulcher 1987, p. 103; Gerhard 1998, p. 35. Early life and training Born Raymond-François-Léon Pillet in Paris,Parturier 1942, p. 163. he was the son of Fabien Pillet (1772–1855), who was a journalist and French administrator.Larousse 1874vol. 12, p. 1015 After attending the Lycée Napoléon (now the Lycée Henri-IV), Léon Pillet continued his studies in law and joined the offices of an attorney by the name of Mauguin.Vapereau 1858p. 1449 Journalist He took part in the founding of the ''Nouveau Journal de Paris'' in 1827, serving mainly as its drama critic. Later, when the suppression of the privileges of the major journals gave more leeway to the enterprise, he became its editor, transforming it into a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opéra Comique
''Opéra comique'' (; plural: ''opéras comiques'') is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged from the popular '' opéras comiques en vaudevilles'' of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne),M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet and Richard Langham Smith"Opéra comique" '' Grove Music Online''. Oxford Music Online. 19 November 2009 which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections. Associated with the Paris theatre of the same name, ''opéra comique'' is not necessarily comical or shallow in nature; '' Carmen'', perhaps the most famous ''opéra comique'', is a tragedy. Use of the term The term ''opéra comique'' is complex in meaning and cannot simply be translated as "comic opera". The genre originated in the early 18th century with humorous and satirical plays performed at the theatres of the Paris fairs which contained songs ('' vaudevilles''), with new words set to already existing music. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Masson
Auguste-Michel-Benoît Gaudichot pseudonym: Michel Masson (31 July 1800 – 12 thermidor an VIII- – 23 April 1883) was a French playwright, journalist and novelist of the 19th century. Biography A worker's son, he began acting at age 10 and played the roles of children in several plays. He was danser at the Théâtre Monthabor, but he had only little success. So he stopped as a danser, and took a job as an apprentice in a bookshop. There he saw other starting authors like M.Champfleury. Masson liked reading books, and he started writing too. But he did not like the commercial side of his job. He worked a time as a café waiter. Masson started writing articles for newspapers, the quality of his work was recognized, and articles of his hand were published in newspapers like ''Les Nouveautés'', the ''Mercure de France'' and ''La Lorgnette''. (journal des théâtres, de la littérature, des arts, des moeurs, des modes et de la librairie, pour Paris, les départemens et l'étrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Hyacinthe Laffillard
Eugène Hyacinthe Laffillard (17 June 1779 – 5 January 1846) was a 19th-century French playwright and chansonnier. A president of the Caveau Moderne in 1839, he participated to numerous literary publications such as the ''Courrier des Théâtres'', ''La Nouveauté'', the ''Observateur'', the ''Voleur'' and ''La France littéraire''. He wrote many vaudevilles under his name or the pen name Eugène Décour. His plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de la Gaîté, Théâtre du Panthéon, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, Théâtre des Variétés etc. Works *1802: ''L'Amour au village'', opéra-vaudeville in 1 act *1802: ''Elina et Natalie, ou les Hongrois'', drama in 3 acts, translated by Kotzebue *1803: ''La Sifflomanie'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act and in prose, with Grétry *1804: ''Le Hameau de Chantilly ou Le Retour'', folie-vaudeville in 1 act *1805: ''Un peu de méchanceté'', comedy in 1 act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tableau Vivant
A (; often shortened to ; plural: ), French language, French for "living picture", is a static scene containing one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery, and may be Theatre, theatrically lit. It thus combines aspects of theatre and the visual arts. A tableau may either be 'performed' live, or depicted in painting, photography and sculpture, such as in many works of the Romanticism, Romantic, Aestheticism, Aesthetic, Symbolism (arts), Symbolist, Pre-Raphaelite, and Art Nouveau movements. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, tableaux sometimes featured ('flexible poses') by virtually nude models, providing a form of Erotica, erotic entertainment, both on stage and in print. Tableaux continue to the present day in the form of living statues, street performers who busk by posing in costume. Origin Occasionally, a Mass (liturgy), Mass was punctuated with short dramatic scenes and paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Lhérie
Victor Lhérie (4 May 1808 – 29 March 1845) was a French librettist and playwright. Biography The son of a jeweler, he was destined to take over from his father when attracted to the theater, he was hired as an actor in Jules and Edmond Seveste's troupes. He made his debut 4 April 1826 at the Théâtre des Variétés in the role of the lover of the play ''France et Savoie'' then was noted for his comic yard in the role of a waiter in ''L’École de natation'' (5 August 1828), which ensured that comedy a strong success. He afterward specialized in the roles of female transvestites. From 1829, he began writing parodies, often with his brother Léon Lévy Brunswick and Léon Vidal, while continuing his acting career. In 1838 and 1848 he played in Brussels, but on his return went insane The plays he wrote during his short career were presented in the most famous Parisian theatres of the 19th century including the Théâtre de la Gaité, the Théâtre des Variétés, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léon Lévy Brunswick
Léon Lévy Brunswick (20 April 1805, in Paris – 29 July 1859, in Le Havre) was a French playwright. He started as a journalist before turning to theater. He is the author of many comedies with Jean-François Bayard, Louis-Émile Vanderburch, and Arthur de Beauplan such as '' Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palmero'' by Franz von Suppé. But it is with Adolphe de Leuven that he is known for his greatest successes, notably booklets of comic operas by Adolphe Adam (''Le Brasseur de Preston,'' ''Le Postillon de Lonjumeau,'' ''Le Roi d'Yvetot''). He has also published under the pseudonym of Leo Lhérie. Selected works * With Adolphe de Leuven Adolphe de Leuven (30 September 1802 – 14 April 1884) was a French theatre director and a librettist. Also known as Grenvallet, and Count Adolph Ribbing. He was the illegitimate son of Adolph Ribbing, who was involved in the assassination of G ...: ''Le mariage au tambour. Comédie en trois actes, mêlée de chant''. (''Théâtre franà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
