Armand Liorat was the pen name of Georges Degas (10 January 1837 – 8 August 1898), a French playwright and
librettist
A libretto (Italian for "booklet") 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 litu ...
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Life and career
Liorat was born in
Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine
Sceaux () is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2019, Sceaux had a population of 20,004.
A wealthy city
Sceaux is famous for the Château de Sceaux, ...
, the son of Pierre André Constant Degas, a lawyer, and his wife Rose Elisabeth Hermance, ''née'' Berthault. He entered the civil service in the office of the préfecture of the Seine, and rose to be chief inspector of administrative finance. Away from his official duties he wrote song-lyrics, and sketches for cafés-concerts. For the spoken drama and the opera he adopted the pen name Amand Liorat and, either alone or in collaboration with writers such as
William Busnach,
Clairville,
Paul Bocage Paul Auguste Tousez, known as Paul Bocage, (5 October 1824, in Paris – 25 September 1887, in Paris) was a French librettist, novelist and dramatist.
Nephew of the famous 19th century actor Bocage (Pierre-Martinien Tousez), he first wrote, using t ...
,
Prével,
Ferrier, wrote a large number of operetta librettos.
["Armand Loriat"]
''Encyclopédie de l'art lyrique français'', Association l'Art Lyrique Français. Retrieved 1 December 2018
As well as librettos for the lyric stage, Liorat wrote some serious drama, including ''La belle aux cheveux d'or'' (1882) in collaboration with Arthur Arnould.
Liorat died suddenly, shortly before his last work, ''Les quatre filles Aymon'' was put into production at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques.
["The Drama in Paris", ''The Era'', 13 August 1898, p. 11]
Librettos
::Source: ''Encyclopédie de l'art lyrique français''.
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1837 births
1898 deaths
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French opera librettists