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Léon Battu
Léon Battu was a French dramatist, born 1829Walsh T J. ''Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870.'' John Calder (Publishers Ltd), London, 1981, Appendix D, p. 342. in Paris, where he died on 22 November 1857. Life and career The son of Pantaléon Battu (1799–1870), a violinist and assistant conductor at the Opéra de Paris,Fétis F-J. ''Biographie universelle des musiciens.'' Vol I, 55. Paris, 1878. and brother of the soprano Marie Battu (1838-1888) who created Inès in ''L'Africaine'', he wrote many vaudevilles and libretti. In the fields of opéra-comique and opérettes, these were in collaboration with Ludovic Halévy, Michel Carré, Jules Barbier, Jules Moinaux and Lockroy. His composers were Jacques Offenbach ('' Pépito'', '' Le mariage aux lanternes''), Adolphe Adam (''Les Pantins de Violette''), Victor Massé (''La Reine Topaze''), Georges Bizet and Charles Lecocq (''Le Docteur Miracle''). With Halévy he translated Mozart's ''Der Schauspieldir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Des Bouffes-Parisiens
The Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens () is a Parisian theatre founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta. The current theatre is located in the 2nd arrondissement at 4 rue Monsigny with an entrance at the back at 65 Passage Choiseul. In the 19th century the theatre was often referred to as the Salle Choiseul. With the decline in popularity of operetta after 1870, the theatre expanded its repertory to include comedies.Bouffes-Parisien website .Lamb, Andrew. "Offenbach, Jacques" in Sadie 1992, vol. 3, pp. 653–658.Levin 2009, pp. 401–402. History Salle Lacaze [...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] |
Rainulphe D'Osmond
Charles Eustache Gabriel (29 July 1788 - October 1862), known as Rainulphe d'Osmond, count then 5th Marquis (1838) of Osmond. He was one of the menin (title), menins to Louis de France (1775-1844), duc d'Angoulême (dauphin from the accession of Charles X of France, Charles X in 1824). Career He was one of the menin (title), menins (essentially a young nobleman who was made a companion of royal children) to Louis de France (1775-1844), Louis, duc d'Angoulême (dauphin from the accession of Charles X of France, Charles X in 1824). As recorded in the memoirs of Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen Hortense, he asked for the post of Chamberlain to Holland, but was denied by the King of Holland Louis Bonaparte (the younger brother of Napoleon, Emperor of the French. References People from Versailles 1788 births 1862 deaths Counts of France Knights of the Order of Saint Louis {{France-noble-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Costé
Edme Jules called Jules Costé, (13 February 1828 – 12 November 1883) was a 19th-century French lawyer and composer of operettas and opéras-comiques. Main works *1855: ''Jacqueline ou la Fille du soldat'', one-act opéra-comique, libretto by Eugène Scribe, Léon Battu and Edouard Fournier, music with the comte d'Osmond, presented at the Comédie Italienne, 15 Mai *1855: ''Une pleine eau'', one-act opérette bouffe, libretto by Ludovic Halévy (under the pseudonym Jules Servières), music with the comte d'Osmond, Bouffes-Parisiens, 29 August *1868: ''Les Horreurs de la guerre'', two-act opéra bouffe, libretto by Philippe Gille (Paris, Cercle de l'Union artistique, then Théâtre de l'Athénée, 9 December) *1868: ''La Paix armée'', one-act operetta (Paris, Cercle de l'Union artistique, 16 April) *1872: ''Le Service obligatoire'', three-act opérette bouffe, libretto by Albert Marion, Henri Meilhac and Fournier-Sarloveze, music with Emmanuel Chabrier and René de Boi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Fournier
Édouard Fournier (15 June 1819, Orléans – 10 May 1880, Paris) was a 19th-century French homme de lettres, playwright, historian, bibliographer and librarian. Biography Born into a locksmiths artist family, he studied at the Collège d'Orléans then devoted entirely to literary work. After a first play in 1841, and some feuilletons published in the newspaper ''Le Loiret'' in 1842, he published a large number of historical, literary, literature and theater studies. He published numerous authors while continuing to write for the stage. He also contributed a great number of articles to the ''Encyclopédie universelle'', the ''Supplément du Dictionnaire de la conversation'', the ''Historie des villes de France'', ''Le Moniteur universel'', ''Le Constitutionnel'', ''L'Illustration'', '' La Revue française'', ''Le Théâtre'', whose chief editor he was from 1853 to 1855, ''La Patrie'', where he held a Parisian theatrical chronicle from 1856, then theatrical, the ''Revue des provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Labiche
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin". Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus Gene is a common shortened form. The feminine variant is or Eugenie. , a common given name in parts of central and northern Europe, is also a variant of Eugene / Eugine. Other male foreign-language variants in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Bercioux
Eugène Bercioux (1822–1898) was a 19th-century French playwright and poet. Works *1847: ''Les Arabesques'', poems, 1847 *1850: ''Nisus et Euryale'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Léon Battu *1852: ''Mam'sell'Rose'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Adrien Decourcelle *1854: ''Après la bataille'', poetry, music by Ernest Boulanger *1855: ''Zamore et Giroflée'', one-act comédie en vaudeville, with Charles Narrey *1856: ''La bonne d'enfant'', one-act opérette bouffe, music by Jacques Offenbach *1858: ''Maître Baton'', one-act operetta, music by Alfred Dufresne *1860: ''La Main du Seigneur'', cantique, poem, music by Boulanger *1861: ''La Malédiction'', poem, music by Boulanger *1878: ''la Fée Caprice'', 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 ... [...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] |
Théâtre Des Variétés
The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle Montansier (Marguerite Brunet). Imprisoned for debt in 1803 and frowned upon by the government, a decree of 1806 ordered her company to leave the Théâtre du Palais-Royal which then bore the name of "Variétés". The decree's aim was to move out Montansier's troupe to make room for the company from the neighbouring Théâtre-Français, which had stayed empty even as the Variétés-Montansier had enjoyed immense public favour. Strongly unhappy about having to leave the theatre by 1 January 1807, the 77-year-old Montansier gained an audience with Napoleon himself and received his help and protection. She thus reunited the "Société des Cinq", which directed her troupe, in order to found a new theatre, the one which stands at the side of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
