Laurencin, real name Paul-Aimé Chapelle, (10 January 1806 - 9 December 1890) was 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 ...
.
He authored numerous theatre plays,
vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ...
s and
operettas, most of them in collaboration. ''
Le 66'' and ''
Monsieur et Madame Denis'' by
Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (, also , , ; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the Romantic period. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ' ...
are among the pieces he collaborated to.
19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French opera librettists
1806 births
1890 deaths
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