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List Of Opera Librettists
This is an incomplete list of authors who have written libretti for operas. Only librettists with their own articles in Wikipedia are listed. The name of the composer of each opera is also given. List of operas by librettist's last name A Giuseppe Adami (1878–1946) * for Giacomo Puccini: '' La rondine'', ''Il tabarro'', ''Turandot'' (with Renato Simoni) * for Riccardo Zandonai: ''La via della finestra'' * for Franco Vittadini: ''Anima allegra'', ''Nazareth'' Jules Adenis (1823–1900) * with Henri Caïn ** for Umberto Giordano: ''Marcella'' * with Charles Grandvallet ** for Jules Massenet: ''La grand'tante'' * with (1821–1876) ** for Jacques Offenbach: ''Un postillon en gage'' * with J Rostaing ** for Ernest Guiraud: ''Sylvie'' * with Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges ** for Georges Bizet: ''La jolie fille de Perth'' * with A Silvestre and L Bonnemère ** for Henry Charles Litolff: ''Les templiers'' Franco Alfano (1875–1954) *for his own music: '' Sakùntala'' Louis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Libretto
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 liturgical works, such as the Mass, requiem and sacred cantata, or the story line of a ballet. ''Libretto'' (; plural ''libretti'' ), from Italian, is the diminutive of the word ''libro'' ("book"). Sometimes other-language equivalents are used for libretti in that language, ''livret'' for French works, ''Textbuch'' for German and ''libreto'' for Spanish. A libretto is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot, in that the libretto contains all the words and stage directions, while a synopsis summarizes the plot. Some ballet historians also use the word ''libretto'' to refer to the 15 to 40 page books which were on sale to 19th century ballet audiences in Paris and contained a very detailed description of the ballet's story, scene by sce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules-Henri Vernoy De Saint-Georges
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (7 November 1799 – 23 December 1875) was a French playwright, who was born and died in Paris. He was one of the most prolific librettists of the 19th century, often working in collaboration with others. Saint-Georges' first work, (1823), a comédie en vaudeville written in collaboration with Alexandre Tardif, was followed by a series of operas and ballets. In 1829 he became manager of the Opéra-Comique at Paris. Among Saint-Georges' more famous libretti are: the ballet ''Giselle'' (with Théophile Gautier) (1841), the opera (1835) for Halévy, the opera (with Jean-François Bayard) (1840) for Donizetti, and the opera for Georges Bizet. Virtually all his opera libretti are for opéras comiques, although (1841), for Halévy, was a grand opera. In all Saint-Georges wrote over seventy stage pieces in collaboration with Eugène Scribe and other authors. He also wrote novels, including . Saint-Georges was notably old-fashioned in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hales (dramatist)
Thomas Hales (''c.'' 1740 – 27 December 1780) was a British-born French dramatist and librettist. He was from an Irish expatriate family in Gloucestershire and joined the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. He settled in Jamaica for a short time and then in Havana, Cuba, before moving to Europe to travel. He lived in Switzerland and Italy both before arriving in Paris, France, in 1770, where he was bankrupted (reportedly by pursuit of women and drunkenness). He learned French quickly and became thoroughly fluent. He met the composer Grétry in 1775 and began to work with him as a librettist. Their first collaboration was ''Les fausses apparences, ou, L'amant jaloux.'' The opera was a hit, and Hales would write four more plays/librettos in the coming years. In 1777 he wrote a short fiction entitled ''Le roman de mon oncle.'' In 1778, he worked with Gréty on ''Le jugement de Midas,'' which was based on ''Midas'' by the Irish playwright Kane O'Hara (1762). The sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Tableau Parlant
''Le tableau parlant'' (''The Talking Picture'') is an opéra comique, described as a ''comédie-parade'', in one act by André Grétry, The French libretto was by Louis Anseaume. Performance history It was first performed on 20 September 1769 by the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. Roles Synopsis In the absence of Isabelle's lover Léandre, Cassandre persuades Isabelle to marry him instead. Cassandre leaves and in the meantime Léandre returns and Isabelle changes her mind. She asks Cassandre's portrait for his agreement to the changed state of affairs, only to find that Cassandre himself is concealed behind the picture. References Further reading * "Tableau parlant, Le" by Michael Fend, in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicology, musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the ''Grove Dic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Grétry
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day Belgium), who worked from 1767 onwards in France and took French nationality. He is most famous for his '' opéras comiques''. Biography He was born at Liège, his father being a poor musician. He was a choirboy at the church of St. Denis (Liège). In 1753 he became a pupil of Jean-Pantaléon Leclerc and later of the organist at St-Pierre de Liège, Nicolas Rennekin, for keyboard and composition and of Henri Moreau, music master at the collegiate church of St. Paul. But of greater importance was the practical tuition he received by attending the performance of an Italian opera company. Here he heard the operas of Baldassarre Galuppi, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and other masters; and the desire of completing his own studies in Italy was the immediate result. To find the necessary means he composed in 1759 a mass which he ded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph Willibald 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, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them ''Orfeo ed Euridice'' and '' Alceste'', he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian '' opera seria'' had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama by using orchestral recitative and cutting the usually long da capo aria. His later operas have half the length of a typical baroque opera. Future composers like Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz and Wagner revered Gluck very highly. The strong influence of French opera encouraged Gluck to move to Paris in November 1773. Fusing the traditions o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Peintre Amoureux De Son Modèle
(''The Painter in Love with his Model'') is an ''opéra comique'' in two acts by the composer Egidio Duni with a libretto by Louis Anseaume. It was first performed at the Théâtre de la Foire Saint-Laurent in Paris on 26 July 1757. The Italian Duni had been working at the court of Parma, where French culture was highly fashionable, and travelled to Paris to see the premiere of his opera. He remained in France for the rest of his career. ''Le peintre'' marked an important stage in the development of ''opéra comique'', since its musical numbers were almost entirely original music, whereas previous ''opéras comiques'' employed either popular vaudevilles or ''ariettes'' appropriated from other works. The melody of "Maudit Amour, raison sévère", one of the opera's ''ariettes'', was used by Sweden's bard, Carl Michael Bellman, for his song "Glimmande nymf", one of his ''Fredman's Epistles ''Fredmans epistlar'' (English: ''Fredman's Epistles'') is a collection of 82 poems se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'école De La Jeunesse
''L'école de la jeunesse ou Le Barnevelt françois'' (''The School of Youth or The French Barnwell'') is an ''opéra comique'' (specifically a '' comédie mêlée d'ariettes'') in three acts by the composer Egidio Duni. The libretto, by Louis Anseaume, is based on George Lillo's play ''The London Merchant or The History of George Barnwell'' (1731). The opera was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 24 January 1765. Main roles References ;Notes ;Sources *Original libretto''L'École de la jeunesse, ou Le Barnevelt français, Comédie. En trois Actes et en vers, mêlée d'ariettes'' Paris. Duchesne, 1775 *Original score''L'École de la jeunesse, ou Le Barnevelt françois, Comédie. En trois Actes et en vers'' Paris, Chez l'Auteur & Lyon, Chez Castaud, s.d. via Gallica * *Cook, Elisabeth (1992), "Ecole de la jeunesse, L'" in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', ed. Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egidio Duni
Egidio Romualdo Duni (or ''Egide Romuald Duny''; 11 February 1708 – 11 June 1775) was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas. Biography Born in Matera, Duni was taught music by his father, Francesco Duni, and two sisters. At the age of nine, he was accepted at the ''Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto'', near Naples. There he worked with Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, and other masters of Italian opera. His first success was with the opera ''Nerone'' presented at the Rome Carnival in 1735. Thereafter he was in London (''Demofoonte'', 1737), returning to Italy where he eventually became ''maestro di cappella'' in Parma in 1749. The latter part of his career was spent in France where he played a key role in the development of the '' comédie mêlée d'ariettes'' (an early form of opéra comique), with such works as '' Le peintre amoureux de son modèle'' (Paris, 1757), '' La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Anseaume
Louis Anseaume (1721 – 7 July 1784 in Paris) was a French playwright and librettist. He contributed the words for operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and François-André Danican Philidor. He is credited with developing the genre of ''comédie mêlée d'ariettes'' (''comedy mixed with ariettes''), a type of opéra comique. A prompter and répétiteur at Comédie Italienne, he was deputy director of the Opéra-Comique and wrote some forty plays, often in collaboration with Charles-Simon Favart, including several opéras-comiques with Duni : *''Le Chinois poli en France'' (1754) *''Le Peintre amoureux de son modèle'' (1757), music by Duni *'' La Fausse Esclave'' (1758), music by Gluck *''Cendrillon'' (1759), music by Laruette *''L'Île des fous'' (1760), music by Duni *''Mazet'' (1761), music by Duni *''Le Milicien'' (1762), music by Duni *'' Les Deux Chasseurs et la Laitière'' (1763), music by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakùntala
''La leggenda di Sakùntala'' (titled ''Sakùntala'' in its revised version) is a three-act opera by Franco Alfano, who wrote his own libretto, basing his work on Kālidāsa's 5th-century BC drama ''Shakuntala''. Première, loss, reconstruction, rediscovery It was first performed at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna on 10 December 1921. The full score and orchestral materials were believed to have been destroyed when an Allied bomb damaged the archives of Alfano's publisher Ricordi during World War II, so Alfano reconstructed the opera and it was performed at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome on 5 January 1952 Jürgen Maehder in Grove gives 9 January, though the Casaglia has 5 January. with the shortened title of ''Sakùntala''. During preparations for a revival in Rome in April 2006, a copy of the original 1921 score was discovered in the Ricordi archives, and the opera was performed for the first time in its original form in modern times under its original name, ''La leggenda di Sakùn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Alfano
Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera '' Risurrezione'' (1904) and for having completed Puccini's opera '' Turandot'' in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Career Alfano was born in Posillipo, Naples. He attended piano lessons given privately by Alessandro Longo, and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857–1951) and Paolo Serrao at the Conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples. Later, after graduating, in 1895 he pursued further composition studies with Hans Sitt and Salomon Jadassohn in Leipzig. While working there he met his idol, Edvard Grieg, and wrote numerous piano and orchestral pieces. From 1918 he was Director of the Conservatory of Bologna, from 1923 Director of the Turin Conservatory, and from 1947 to 1950 Director of the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. Alfano died in San Remo. Operas Alfano complet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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