François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet (10 April 1716 in
Normanville – 2 August 1786 in Paris) was a French diplomat and playwright. He is chiefly remembered today as the librettist of
Gluck
Christoph Willibald ( Ritter von) Gluck (; ; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire at ...
's operas ''
Iphigénie en Aulide
''Iphigénie en Aulide'' (''Iphigeneia in Aulis (ancient Greece), Aulis'') is an opera in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the first work he wrote for the Paris stage. The libretto was written by François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet ...
'' and ''
Alceste'' (1776 French version). He also co-wrote (with
Louis-Théodore de Tschudi) the libretto for
Salieri's opera ''
Les Danaïdes''.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...
François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet
Retrieved 28 August 2014 .
References
Writers from Normandy
1716 births
1786 deaths
French opera librettists
18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
18th-century French diplomats
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