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Pol Mercier
Pol Mercier, real name Jean-Étienne-Polydore Mercier (25 April 1819 – 11 May 1874) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. He was born and died in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his time including the Folies-nouvelles, the Théâtre de l'Odéon, the Comédie-française, and the Théâtre des Variétés. Works *1846: ''Un Nuage au ciel'', comédie en vaudevilles in 1 act, with Jean-François-Alfred Bayard *1850: ''Freluchette'', opéra comique in one act *1851: ''Christian et Marguerite'', comedy in 1 act, in verse, with Édouard Fournier *1852: ''Méridien'', one-act comédie en vaudevilles, with Clairville and Raymond Deslandes *1853: ''Le Roman du village'', one-act comedy in verse, with Fournier *1855: ''Biribi'', pantomime, foreword by Théophile Gautier *1855: ''Le Chevrier blanc'', conte-pantomime extravaganza in 5 tableaux, with Paul Legrand *1855: ''La SÅ“ur de Pierrot'', mimodrama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Deslandes
Raymond Deslandes, called Raimond Deslandes, (12 July 182523 March 1890) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright and theater manager. He wrote, alone or in collaboration (particularly with Eugène Labiche), numerous comedies. He also directed the Théâtre du Vaudeville. Works Theatre * 1845: ''Un souper sous la Régence'', vaudeville comedy in 1 act, with Commerson, Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques (15 November) * 1848: ''Un mariage par procuration'', vaudeville comedy in 1 act, with Armand Durantin, Théâtre du Vaudeville (8 June) * 1850: ''Les Trois Racan'', comedy in 1 act from the ''Mémoires'' by Tallemant des Réaux, with Armand Durantin, Théâtre-Historique (25 June) * 1851: ''Jeanne'', vaudeville comedy in 3 acts, with Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Théâtre des Variétés (1 February) * 1852: ''Méridien'', vaudeville comedy in 1 act, with Clairville and Pol Mercier, Vaudeville (17 August) * 1853: ''La Terre promise'', vaudeville comedy in 3 acts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Rochefort, Charente-Maritime
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French Librettists
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19th-century French Dramatists And Playwrights
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Frédéric Barbier (composer)
Frédéric Barbier (15 November 1829 – 12 February 1889) was a 19th-century French composer. Biography Frédéric Barbier was born in Metz, Lorraine, and was the son of Félix Henri Barbier and Adélaide Josephine Rosalie Rousseau. Barbier pursued a career in literary studies at Bourges College, while taking lessons in solfège, piano, harmony and counterpoint with Henry Darondeau, an organist in one of the churches of the city. His father, an engineer officer, wanted to see him join the École Polytechnique, of which he himself had been a pupil. But in 1848, the De Gasperi V Cabinet had created a new school, and the young Barbier preferred to compete for the latter and was admitted. This school was disbanded soon after and he began to study law. But music attracted him more and more. In 1852, Frédéric Barbier had already written and presented in Bourges a small one-act opéra comique, ''Le Mariage de Colombine'', but considered moving to Paris. Presented by influential ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amédée De Jallais
Amédée de Jallais (17 December 1826 – 31 January 1909) was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier. Biography The son of a lieutenant colonel in the guards, he studied at the College Bourbon then entered in the insurance company La Nationale (1845–1850) as employee, a position he will leave to devote himself entirely to literature after the success of his comedy ''Un de perdu, une de retrouvée''. Collaborator of the ''Gazette des théâtres'', then of the ''Messager des théâtres'', he became managing director of the Théâtre des Délassements-Comiques (1871) then after the blaze of this theatre on 22 May 1871, of the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs. Administrator dof the Théâtre Déjazet (1874–1875), general secretary of the Théâtre de la République (1897), he married the actress Eudoxie Laurent in 1862. He wrote more than two hundred plays which were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its shorter length, the operetta is usually of a light and amusing character. It sometimes also includes satirical commentaries. "Operetta" is the Italian diminutive of "opera" and was used originally to describe a shorter, perhaps less ambitious work than an opera. Operetta provides an alternative to operatic performances in an accessible form targeting a different audience. Operetta became a recognizable form in the mid-19th century in France, and its popularity led to the development of many national styles of operetta. Distinctive styles emerged across countries including Austria-Hungary, Germany, England, Spain, the Philippines, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States. Through the transfer of operetta among different countries, cultural cosmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard Montaubry
Jean Baptiste Édouard Montaubry (27 March 1824 – 12 February 1883) was a French violinist, conductor, tenor and composer. He was the brother of the tenor Achille-Félix Montaubry (1826-1898). Bibliography * Erik Kocevar: "Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Montaubry", in Joël-Marie Fauquet (ed.): ''Dictionnaire de la musique en France au XIXe siècle'' (Paris: Fayard Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard ..., 2003); . 1824 births 1883 deaths 19th-century French composers 19th-century French male singers Conservatoire de Paris alumni French conductors (music) 19th-century French male classical violinists French operatic tenors French male conductors (music) People from Niort {{France-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Legrand
Paul Legrand (January 4, 1816 – April 16, 1898), born Charles-Dominique-Martin Legrand, was a highly regarded and influential French mime who turned the Pierrot of his predecessor, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, into the tearful, sentimental character that is most familiar to post-19th-century admirers of the figure. He was the first of the Parisian mimes of his era (the second was Deburau ''fils'') to take his art abroad—to London, in late 1847, for a holiday engagement at the Adelphi—and, after triumphs in mid-century Paris at the Folies-Nouvelles, he entertained audiences in Cairo and Rio de Janeiro. In the last years of the century, he was a member of the Cercle Funambulesque, a theatrical society that promoted work, especially pantomime, inspired by the Commedia dell'Arte, past and present. The year of his death coincided with the last year of the Cercle's existence. Life and career Like Deburau ''père'', he was of humble birth—he was the son of a grocer in Sainte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extravaganza
An extravaganza is a literary or musical work (often musical theatre) usually containing elements of burlesque, pantomime, music hall and parody in a spectacular production and characterized by freedom of style and structure. It sometimes also has elements of cabaret, circus, revue, variety, vaudeville and mime. ''Extravaganza'' may more broadly refer to an elaborate, spectacular, and expensive theatrical production. 19th-century British dramatist, James Planché, was known for his extravaganzas. Planché defined the genre as "the whimsical treatment of a poetical subject."Planché. ''The recollections and reflections of J.R. Planché (Somerset herald): a professional biography'' (1872), Vol. II, p. 43 The term is derived from the Italian word ''stravaganza'', meaning extravagance. See also * Spectacle *Victorian burlesque Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian England and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. He was widely esteemed by writers as disparate as Balzac, Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Flaubert, Pound, Eliot, James, Proust and Wilde. Life and times Gautier was born on 30 August 1811 in Tarbes, capital of Hautes-Pyrénées département (southwestern France). His father was Jean-Pierre Gautier,See "Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs – La descendance de Théophile Gautier", landrucimetieres.fr/ref> a fairly cultured minor government official, and his mother was Antoinette-Adelaïde Cocard. The family moved to Paris in 1814, taking up residence in the ancient Marais district. Gautier's education co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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