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Arthur Bernède
Arthur Bernède (5 January 1871 – 20 March 1937) was a French writer, poet, opera librettist, and playwright. Bernède was born in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine department, in Brittany. In 1919, Bernède joined forces with actor René Navarre, who had played ''Fantômas'' in the Louis Feuillade serials, and writer Gaston Leroux, the creator of Rouletabille, to launch the Société des Cinéromans, a production company that would produce films and novels simultaneously. Bernède published almost 200 adventure, mystery, and historical novels. His best-known characters are '' Belphégor'', ''Judex'', '' Mandrin'', ''Chantecoq'', and '' Vidocq''. Bernède also collaborated on plays, poems, and opera libretti with Paul de Choudens; including several operas by Félix Fourdrain. Bernède also wrote the libretti for a number of operas, among them Jules Massenet's '' Sapho'' and Camille Erlanger's ''L'Aube rouge''. Works ;Opéras, opéras bouffe and vocal pieces * ''Phryné'', opera by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frédéric-Auguste Cazals
Frédéric-Auguste Cazals (1865–1941) was a French writer and illustrator, also notable as one of the closest friends of Paul Verlaine from 1886 to Verlaine's death. Works * ''Le jardin des ronces : poèmes et chansons du pays latin'', préface de Rachilde, avant-propos et notes de Serge Fauchereau, Paris, Somogy, 1995 * ''Les derniers jours de Paul Verlaine'', avec Gustave Le Rouge, préface de Maurice Barrès, Slatkine, 1983 Image:Francis Poictevin.jpg, Francis PoictevinPortrait by Frédéric-Auguste Cazals. File:Maîtres de l'affiche V 1 - Pl 15 - Cazals.jpg, Paul Verlaine and Jean Moréas, poster for Salon des Cent, published also in Les Maîtres de l'Affiche ''Maîtres de l'Affiche'' (Masters of the Poster) refers to 256 color lithographic plates used to create an art publication during the Belle Époque in Paris, France. The collection, reproduced from the original works of ninety-seven artists in a ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Cazals, Frederic-Auguste 1865 births 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul De Choudens
Paul (de) Choudens, also known under the pseudonym Paul Bérel (5 June 1850 – 7 October 1925), was a French musician, music publisher, poet and librettist. Biography Choudens was born in Paris. In 1888, with his brother Antony, he took over the publishing house established by his father Antoine de Choudens in 1845 and made a fortune in publishing in particular, the music scores of ''Faust'' by Gounod and ''Carmen'' by Bizet. He was a staunch supporter of Alfred Bruneau, Paul Vidal and André Messager. As a librettist, he translated and adapted ''Der Schauspieldirektor'' by Mozart in collaboration with Arthur Bernède with whom he would write five libretti for the composer Félix Fourdrain. Libretti * Henri Hirschmann: ''Lovelace'' (in collaboration with Jules Barbier) * Pietro Mascagni: '' Amica'' * Isidore de Lara: ''Sanga'' * Ruggero Leoncavallo: ''Maïa'' * Camille Erlanger: ''L'Aube rouge'' * Albert Dupuis: '' La Passion'' * Xavier Leroux: ''La Plus forte'' * Henry Févri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre De Cluny
The théâtre de Cluny or théâtre Cluny was an entertainment venue located at 71 boulevard Saint-Germain in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, inaugurated in 1864 and closed in 1989. Productions (selection) * 1869 : ''Le Juif Polonais'', opera in three acts * 1870 : ''Père et mari'', 3-act prose drama, 21 June * 1879 : ''Claudie'' by George Sand, 17 September * 1888 : ''Le Docteur Jojo'' by Albert Carré, 16 March * 1888 : ''Le Gant rouge'', by Edmond Rostand, one-act comedy, 24 August * 1893 : '' Boubouroche'' by Georges Courteline, September * 1917 : ''Chantecoq'' by Arthur Bernède and Aristide Bruant, 10 October * 1901 : ''La Dame du commissaire'', comedy in three acts, 20 April * 1923 : ''Judex'' by Arthur Bernède after the movie ''Judex'' by Louis Feuillade and Arthur Bernède, 14 August * 1929 : ''Ma veuve s'amuse'' by José de Bérys and Benjamin Rabier Bibliography *Philippe Chauveau, ''Les Théâtres parisiens disparus (1402-1986)'', éd. de l'Amandier, Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Printemps
Yvonne Printemps (; born Yvonne Wigniolle; 25 July 1894 – 19 January 1977) was a French singer and actress who achieved stardom on stage and screen in France and internationally. Printemps went on the stage in Paris at the age of 12, and at 21 she was singled out by the actor, director and playwright Sacha Guitry as a leading lady. In 1919 they were married, and worked closely together until 1932, when they divorced. Printemps never remarried, but had a personal and professional partnership with the actor Pierre Fresnay which lasted until his death in 1975. As a performer, Printemps was famed for the quality of her singing voice and for her personal charm. Among those who composed for her were André Messager, Reynaldo Hahn, Noël Coward and Francis Poulenc. Her voice could have led her to an operatic career, but guided by Guitry she concentrated on operette and other types of musical show, along with non-musical plays and films. In addition to her many successes in Paris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rouen
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of Middle Ages, medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area (french: functional area (France), aire d'attraction) is 702,945 (2018). People from Rouen are known as ''Rouennais''. Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries. From the 13th century onwards, the city experienced a remarkable economic boom, thanks in particular to the development of textile factories and river trade. Claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was on its soil that Joan of Arc was tried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Des Arts (Rouen)
Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the population of the metropolitan area (french: aire d'attraction) is 702,945 (2018). People from Rouen are known as ''Rouennais''. Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy during the Middle Ages. It was one of the capitals of the Anglo-Norman dynasties, which ruled both England and large parts of modern France from the 11th to the 15th centuries. From the 13th century onwards, the city experienced a remarkable economic boom, thanks in particular to the development of textile factories and river trade. Claimed by both the French and the English during the Hundred Years' War, it was on its soil that Joan of Arc was tried and burned alive on 30 May 1431. Severely damaged by the wave of bombing in 1944, it nevertheless regained its economic dynamism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opéra-Comique
The Opéra-Comique is a Paris opera company which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne. It was also called the Théâtre-Italien up to about 1793, when it again became most commonly known as the Opéra-Comique. Today the company's official name is Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, and its theatre, with a capacity of around 1,248 seats, sometimes referred to as the Salle Favart (the third on this site), is located at Place Boïeldieu in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris, not far from the Palais Garnier, one of the theatres of the Paris Opéra. The musicians and others associated with the Opéra-Comique have made important contributions to operatic history and tradition in France and to French opera. Its current mission is to reconnect with its history and discover its unique repertoire to ensu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Calvé
Emma Calvé, born Rosa Emma Calvet (15 August 1858 – 6 January 1942) was a French operatic soprano. Calvé was probably the most famous French female opera singer of the Belle Époque. Hers was an international career, and she sang regularly at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, and the Royal Opera House, London. Early life Calvé was born on 15 August 1858 in Decazeville, Aveyron. Her birth name was Rosa Emma Calvet. Her father, Justin Calvet, was a civil engineer. She spent her childhood at first in Spain with her parents, then in different convent schools in Roquefort and Tournemire (Aveyron). After her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Paris. There she attempted to enter the Paris Conservatory, while she studied singing under Jules Puget. She started learning music in Paris from Mathilde Marchesi, a retired German mezzo-soprano and Manuel GarcÃa. She made a tour of Italy, where she saw the famous actress Eleonora Duse, whose impersonations made a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Cain
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * Henri I, Duke of Nemours (1572–1632), the son of Jacques of Savoy and Anna d'Este * Henri II, Duke of Nemours (1625–1659), the seventh Duc de Nemours * Henri, Count of Harcourt (1601–1666), French nobleman * Henri, Dauphin of Viennois (1296–1349), bishop of Metz * Henri de Gondi (other) * Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555–1623), member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne * Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (1857–1923), French mountain climber * Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (born 1955), the head of state of Luxembourg * Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway, French Huguenot soldier and diplomat, one of the principal commanders of Bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Péronne (Somme) (?–1679), one of the last women to have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in France
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Péronne is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: * Péronne, Saône-et-Loire, in the Saône-et-Loire département * Péronne, Somme, in the Somme département ** Château de Péronne * Péronne-en-Mélantois, in the Nord département * Peronne Goguillon Peronne Goguillon (died 29 May 1679) was an alleged French witch. She and the other women who were accused with her are regarded the last women to have been burned at the stake for witchcraft in France. Life On 8 May 1679, four soldiers from the gar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns), Second Piano Concerto (1868), the Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns), First Cello Concerto (1872), ''Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns), Danse macabre'' (1874), the opera ''Samson and Delilah (opera), Samson and Delilah'' (1877), the Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns), Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and ''The Carnival of the Animals'' (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, Paris, La Madeleine, the official church of the Second French Empire, Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Erlanger
Camille Erlanger (25 May 186324 April 1919) was a French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes (composition), Georges Mathias (piano), as well as Émile Durand and Antoine Taubon (harmony).Jacobshagen, Arnold: "Erlanger, Camille", in: ''Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'' (MMG), biographical part, vol. 6 (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001; ), cc. 437. In 1888 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata ''Velléda''. His most famous opera, '' Le Juif polonais'', was produced at the Opéra-Comique in 1900. Erlanger died in Paris and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. A street in Quebec City, Avenue Erlanger, is named after Erlanger. Works * ''Velléda'', scène lyrique (1888), given at the Concerts Colonne in 1889 * ''La Légende de Saint-Julien l'Hospitalier'', légende dramatique in three acts and seven tableaux, after the story by Gustave Flaubert, (1888) * ''Kermaria'', drame lyrique in three acts, libretto by Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, Opà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
