Édouard Blau (30 May 1836 – 7 January 1906) was a French

dramatist A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwri ...

and

opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by Singing, singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically ...

librettist A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major ...

. He was a cousin of Alfred Blau, another librettist of the same period.Smith C. Édouard Blau. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera''. Macmillan, London & New York, 1997. Going to Paris at the age of 20, he worked at the Assistance Publique but from 1870 concentrated on theatrical writing. For his libretti, he collaborated with Louis Gallet, Alfred Blau, Camille du Locle and Louis de Gramont.

Operas to librettos by Édouard Blau

Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', w ...

**''La Coupe du roi de Thulé'' (1868–69) **''Don Rodrigue'' (1873) *

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...

**''La Marocaine'' (1879) **'' Belle Lurette'' (1880) * Benjamin Godard **''Dante'' (1880) *

Jules Massenet Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are ''Manon'' (1884 ...

**'' Le Cid'' (1885) **'' Werther'' (1892) *

Édouard Lalo Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 182322 April 1892) was a French composer, violist, violinist, and academic teacher. His most celebrated piece is the '' Symphonie Espagnole'', a five-movement concerto for violin and orchestra that re ...

**'' Le roi d'Ys'' (1888)

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19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French opera librettists 1836 births 1906 deaths Writers from Blois 19th-century French male writers {{France-playwright-stub