Étienne Victor Tréfeu (de Tréval) (born

Saint-Lô Saint-Lô (, ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in northwest France, the capital of the Manche department in the region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy.Manche Manche (, ; Norman language, Norman: ) is a coastal Departments of France, French ''département'' in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as , literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by ...

, September 25, 1821 – died

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, June, 1903), was a French

librettist A libretto (From the Italian word , ) 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 ...

, song writer and theatre manager. He is best known for his work with

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...

. He originally came to prominence as a writer of popular songs. In 1873 he became the administrator of the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris.

Works

*1855: ''Le Rêve d'une nuit d'été'', saynète in 1 act by Jacques Offenbach *1857: ''Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins'', opérette bouffe en 1 act by Jacques Offenbach, libretto with Adolphe Jaime fils *1859: ''

Geneviève de Brabant ''Geneviève de Brabant'' () is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, by Jacques Offenbach, first performed in Paris in 1859. The plot is based on the medieval legend of Genevieve of Brabant. For the 1867 version two additional characters, men-at-ar ...

'',

opéra bouffon ''Opéra bouffon'' () is the French term for the Italian genre of opera buffa (comic opera) performed in 18th-century France, either in the original language or in French translation. It was also applied to original French opéras comiques having ...

in 2 acts by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Étienne Tréfeu and Adolphe Jaime fils *1863: ''Il Signor Fagotto'', one-act opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by

Charles Nuitter Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

and Étienne Tréfeu *1864: ''Le soldat magicien'', one-act opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu *1864: ''Jeanne qui pleure et Jean qui rit'', opérette en 1 acte de Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu *1865: ''Coscoletto ou le Lazzarone'', two-act opéra comique by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu *1869: ''

La princesse de Trébizonde ''La Princesse de Trébizonde'' is an opéra bouffe with music by Jacques Offenbach and text by Étienne Tréfeu and Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. The work was first given in two acts at the Theater Baden-Baden on 31 July 1869 and subsequently ...

'', opéra bouffe in 2 then 3 acts by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu *1869: ''La Romance de la rose'', one-act

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...

by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Étienne Tréfeu and

Jules Prével Jules Prével (1835 in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët – 1889 in Paris) was a 19th-century French journalist and opera librettist. For a while, he was responsible for the theatre column in ''Le Figaro''. He participated in the writing of the libre ...

*1871: '' Boule-de-Neige'', three-act opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu *1874: ''Whittington'', grand-opéra-bouffe-féerie in 3 acts by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Charles Nuitter and Étienne Tréfeu adapted in English by

Henry Brougham Farnie Henry Brougham Farnie (8 April 1836 – 21 September 1889), often called H. B. Farnie, was a British librettist and adapter of French operettas and an author. Some of his English-language versions of operettas became record-setting hits on th ...

Bibliography

''Tréfeu (de Tréval), Etienne (Victor)'' by Andrew Lamb, in 'The

New Grove Dictionary of Opera ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' is an encyclopedia of opera. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volumes. The dictionary was first published in 1992 by Macmillan Reference, L ...

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