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Gaston Arman De Caillavet
Gaston Arman de Caillavet (13 March 1869 Р13 January 1915) was a French playwright. Early life Gaston Arman de Caillavet was born on 13 March 1869. He was the son of Albert Arman de Caillavet and L̩ontine Lippmann. His maternal grandfather, Auguste Lippmann, was a banker of Jewish descent. Career De Caillavet was a playwright. From 1901 to 1915, he collaborated with Robert de Flers on many works, including light and witty operettas or com̩dies de boulevard, many of which were great successes. Personal life In April 1893 he married Jeanne Pouquet. He was a close friend of Marcel Proust who found in him and his fianc̩e, Jeanne Pouquet, a model of the relationship between Robert de Saint-Loup and Gilberte in his famous novel '' In Search of Lost Time''. Gaston and Jeanne had only one daughter, Simone, who married (second wedding) Andr̩ Maurois, future biographer of Proust.Kolbert, Jack (1985)''The Worlds of Andr̩ Maurois'' p. 250. Susquehanna University Press. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léontine Lippmann
Léontine Lippmann (1844–1910), better known by her married name of Madame Arman or Madame Arman de Caillavet, was the muse of Anatole France and the hostess of a highly fashionable literary salon (gathering), salon during the French Third Republic. Madame Verdurin in Marcel Proust, Proust's ''In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past'' was modelled on Lippmann. Life Born into a wealthy Jewish family as a banker's daughter, she married Albert Arman. Arman's mother's maiden name was Caillavet and so they called themselves Arman de Caillavet. They had one child, the playwright Gaston Arman de Caillavet. Neither of them was faithful to the other, though they never divorced. Beautiful in her youth, with clear blue eyes, black hair, and a mocking mouth, she was intelligent, cultivated and spoke four languages. She often attended the salons of Lydie Aubernon and it was there that she met Anatole France, in 1883. From 1888 there followed years of a passionate, exclusive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortunio (opera)
''Fortunio'' is a comédie lyrique or opera in four acts (originally five) and five tableaux by the French composer André Messager. The libretto by Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers is based on Alfred de Musset's 1835 comedy ''Le Chandelier''. It was first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris, on 5 June 1907, and remained part of the regular repertory until the 1940s. In recent years it has been revived in several productions in France and other countries. The opera has no spoken dialogue and comprises completely sung recitative and arias. Fortunio, clerk to the lawyer Maître André, becomes the decoy for an affair between Jacqueline – the lawyer's wife – and Clavaroche, an army officer, Fortunio falls in love with Jacqueline before discovering what is going on between her and the officer. Eventually she falls for Fortunio's innocent charm and sends Clavaroche away. Background Alfred de Musset's play ''Le Chandelier'' was published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béatrice (opera)
''Béatrice'' is a ''légende lyrique'' (opera) in four acts of 1914, with music by André Messager and a French libretto by Caillavet and Flers, after the short story ''La légende de Soeur Béatrix'' (1837) by Nodier. Background Nodier's work was first published in ''La Revue de Paris'' in October 1837. The story was chosen by the composer for its variety of dramatic situations; the opera is a serious lyric drama, unprecedented in Messager's output, generally weighted towards operetta.Augé-Laribé M. ''Messager: La vie, L'Oeuvre, Discographie.'' La Colombe, Paris, 1951. The music critic Pierre Lalo, commenting on the Paris premiere, noted the impact of the second act love duet and considered the fourth act to be most well written. Performance history ''Béatrice'' was first performed at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo on 21 March 1914, and was subsequently produced in Buenos Aires on 15 July 1916 and Rio de Janeiro on 20 September 1916. The Opéra-Comique in Paris mounted the work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Du Vaudeville
The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre company in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles. After the theatre on the rue de Chartres burned down in 1838, the Vaudeville temporarily based itself on boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle before in 1841 setting up in the Salle de la Bourse on the Place de la Bourse in the 2e arrondissement. This building was demolished in 1869. Eugène Labiche and Henri Meilhac put on several of their works there, and it also hosted Jules Verne's play ''Onze jours de siège'' (1861). Other writers whose works were put on there were Edmond Gondinet, Alexandre Bisson, Théophile Marion Dumersan, Jean-François Bayard, Narcisse Fournier and Gaston Arman de Caillavet. In 1852, ''La Dame aux camélias'' by Alexandre Dumas fils was put on here. For the first time in the era, there were over 100 consecutive perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Rey
Étienne Rey (1 March 1879 – 16 February 1965) was a French writer, dramatist and literary critic and one of the first best-seller writers of the Grasset publisher. His play ''La belle aventure'', co-written with Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet was premiered in 1913 at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, and played again numerous times. It has been adapted to the screen in 1917, 1932 and 1942 under the title ''The Beautiful Adventure''. Works * 1911: ''Sous la Lumière rouge'', drama in 3 acts * 1912: ''La renaissance de l'orgueil français'', Ed. Grasset * 1913: ''La belle aventure'': comedy in three acts (with Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.Pierre Barillet, ''Les Seigneurs du rire: Flers – Caillavet – ...), performed at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1927 and 1949 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opéra De Marseille
The Opéra de Marseille, known today as the Opéra Municipal, is an opera company located in Marseille, France. In 1685, the city was the second in France after Bordeaux to have an opera house which was erected on a tennis court. However, the first real theatre, the ''Grand-Théâtre'' or ''Salle Bauveau'' was constructed in 1787. During its period of great opulence following the Revolution, it was the site of many major opera presentations, including Verdi’s ''Rigoletto'' and ''Il Trovatore'' in 1860 and performances in 1866 of ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' and ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' by the famous soprano, Adelina Patti. Also, French premieres of major operatic works were given in the theatre: these include ''Aida'' (1877), ''La Fanciulla del West'' (1912), and an historic performance by Dame Nellie Melba in Ambroise Thomas’ ''Hamlet'' in 1890. Some years following the installation of electricity, in November 1919 a fire destroyed the 18th century theatre, leaving only its she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Nouguès
Jean-Charles Nouguès (25 April 1875 – 28 August 1932) was a French composer of operas. Born in Bordeaux, Nouguès was from a wealthy family, and in his youth he received little formal musical training."Pathé Opera Series vol. 5: ''Les Frères Danilo''/''La Traviata''" His first opera, ''Le Roi de Papagey'', was written when he was only sixteen;Greene, David Mason, ''Biographical Dictionary of Composers''. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1985. after further study in Paris, he composed a second, ''Yannha'', which was premiered in Bordeaux in 1905.Ewen, David, ''Encyclopedia of the Opera: New Enlarged Edition''. New York: Hill and Wang 1963. Neither this nor 1904's ''Thamyris'' had much success. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuel Arène
Emmanuel Arène (1 January 1856 – 14 August 1908) was a French journalist, playwright and republican politician who was deputy for Corsica for many years and senator of Corsica in his last years. He was involved in scandals over maritime mail contracts and the Panama Canal funding. Towards the end of his career he dominated Corsican politics. Arène was also a prolific and successful journalist, wrote short stories and wrote for the theatre. Background After the fall of the Emperor Napoleon III in 1870 the island of Corsica was a Bonapartist stronghold for the next ten years. New political players from the middle-classes appeared from 1880 onward, mostly foreign to the idea of dynasties. Instead they based their legitimacy on their education, professional success and ability to get things done by pulling together political, administrative and business networks. Arène emerged as one of the most prominent of these new men, leader of the island's Republicans by 1885 and the domina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française () or Théâtre-Français () is one of the few state theatres in France. Founded in 1680, it is the oldest active theatre company in the world. Established as a French state-controlled entity in 1995, it is the only state theatre in France to have its own permanent troupe of actors. The company's primary venue is the Salle Richelieu, which is a part of the Palais-Royal complex and located at 2, Rue de Richelieu on Place André-Malraux in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The theatre has also been known as the Théâtre de la République and popularly as "La Maison de Molière" (The House of Molière). It acquired the latter name from the troupe of the best-known playwright associated with the Comédie-Française, Molière. He was considered the patron of French actors. He died seven years before his troupe became known as the Comédie-Française, but the company continued to be known as "La Maison de Molière" even after the official change of name. Histor ... [...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] |
André Messager
André Charles Prosper Messager (; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor. His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéra comique, opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet ''Les Deux Pigeons (ballet), Les Deux Pigeons'' (1886) and opéra comique ''Véronique (operetta), Véronique'' (1898) have had lasting success; ''Les p'tites Michu, Les P'tites Michu'' (1897) and ''Monsieur Beaucaire (opera), Monsieur Beaucaire'' (1919) were also popular internationally. Messager took up the piano as a small child and later studied composition with, among others, Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. He became a major figure in the musical life of Paris and later London, both as a conductor and a composer. Many of his Parisian works were also produced in the West End theatre, West End and some on Broadway theatre, Broadway; the most successful had long runs and numerous international revival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred De Musset
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.His names are often reversed "Louis Charles Alfred de Musset": see "(Louis Charles) Alfred de Musset" (bio), Biography.com, 2007, webpageBio9413"Chessville – Alfred de Musset: Romantic Player", Robert T. Tuohey, Chessville.com, 2006, webpage. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel ''La Confession d'un enfant du siècle'' (''The Confession of a Child of the Century''). Biography Musset was born in Paris. His family was upper-class but poor; his father worked in various key government positions, but never gave his son any money. Musset's mother came from similar circumstances, and her role as a society hostess – for example her drawing-room parties, luncheons and dinners held in the Musset residence – left a lasting impression on young Alfred. An early indication of his boyhood talents was his fondness for acting impromptu m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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