Michel Duboullay or Du Boullay (1676 in
Paris
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– 1751 in
Rome
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) was a French
librettist..
Secretary of the Grand Prieur de Vendôme, Duboullay authored the librettos of two operas:
''Zéphyre et Flore'' opera-
ballet
Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...
in three acts and a prologue, music by
Louis Lully and
Jean-Louis Lully Jean-Louis Lully (24 September 1667 – 23 December 1688) was a French musician and composer. He was born in Paris, the youngest son of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
On 8 June 1687 he succeeded his father as ''surintendant'' and ''compositeur de la musique ...
, played 22 March 1688 and revived in theatre by the
Académie royale de musique Tuesday 18 June 1715 (Paris, P. Ribou)
*
''Orphée'', three-act tragedy, music by Louis Lully, presented in 1690.
Sources
* Jacques Bernard Durey de Noinville, Louis Travenol
''Histoire du Théâtre de l’opéra en France depuis l’établissement de l’Académie'' Paris, Joseph Barbou, 1753, (p. 191).
External links
Michel Duboullayon
data.bnf.fr
His plays and their presentationso
CÉSAR
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18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French opera librettists
Writers from Paris
1676 births
1751 deaths