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Jean-Baptiste Lully (4,308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

continuo as the driving force behind the music. The pitch standard for the French opera at the time was about 392 Hz for A above middle C, a whole tone lower

Opéra National de Lyon (552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Opera Awards. Retrieved 9 October 2023. Citations "Opéra de Lyon" (in French). Opéra de Lyon. Retrieved 18 July 2010. Other sources Beauvert, Thierry (1995)

Sylvain Maréchal (1,068 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sylvain Maréchal (French: [maʁeʃal]; 15 August 1750 – 18 January 1803) was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views presaged

Opéra-Comique (3,330 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

important contributions to operatic history and tradition in France and to French opera. Its current mission is to reconnect with its history and discover its

André Campra (943 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was a French composer and conductor of the Baroque era. The leading French opera composer in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe

Ernest Chausson (1,161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amédée-Ernest Chausson (French: [ʃosɔ̃]; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer. Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family

Patrice Chéreau (3,254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chéreau (French: [patʁis ʃeʁo]; 2 November 1944 – 7 October 2013) was a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer. In France he is

Adolphe Adam (2,910 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Baker, Adam ranks with Auber and Boieldieu as one of the creators of French opera, thanks to the expressive power of his melodic material and his keen

Comic opera (2,710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

any sense of the word. Florimond Hervé is credited as the inventor of French opéra bouffe, or opérette. Working on the same model, Jacques Offenbach quickly

Étienne Méhul (2,496 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

The Viking Opera Guide ed.Holden (1993) David Charlton, chapter on "French Opera 1800–1850" in The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera ed. Roger Parker

Louise Bertin (523 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louise-Angélique Bertin (15 January 1805 – 26 April 1877) was a French composer and poet. Bertin was born in Les Roches, Essonne, France. Her father, Louis-François

Mathé Altéry (187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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André Jolivet (1,489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

André Jolivet (pronounced [ɑ̃dʁe ʒɔlivɛ]; 8 August 1905 – 20 December 1974) was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical

Philippe Soupault (651 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philippe Soupault (2 August 1897 – 12 March 1990) was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He was active in Dadaism and

Jules Barbier (252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.

André Grétry (1,245 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

André Ernest Modeste Grétry (French: [gʁɛtʁi]; baptised 11 February 1741; died 24 September 1813) was a composer from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (present-day

Fromental Halévy (1,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy (French: [fʁɔmɑ̃tal alevi]; 27 May 1799 – 17 March 1862), was a French composer

Opéra bouffon (168 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

voyage de MM. Dunanan père et fils), and is sometimes confused with the French opéra comique and opéra bouffe. Bartlet, M. Elizabeth C. (2001). "Opéra bouffon

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1,416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ pɔnɛl]; 19 February 1932 – 11 August 1988) was a French opera director, set and costume designer. Ponnelle was born in Paris. He studied

Georges Auric (1,567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Georges Auric (French: [ɔʁik]; 15 February 1899 – 23 July 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, France. He was considered one of Les Six

François-Adrien Boieldieu (1,071 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1815–83), a son he had with Thérèse Louise Antoinette Regnault, the French opera singer and member of the Opéra-Comique who is known under the name Antoinette

Jean Daniélou (1,378 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou S.J. (French: [danjelu]; 14 May 1905 – 20 May 1974) was a French Jesuit and cardinal, an internationally well known patrologist

Opéra national du Rhin (574 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Opéra national du Rhin is an opera company which performs in Alsace, eastern France. It includes the Opéras in Strasbourg, in Mulhouse, where the Ballet

Louis Niedermeyer (1,336 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Abraham Louis Niedermeyer (27 April 1802 – 14 March 1861) was a Swiss and naturalized French composer. He chiefly wrote church music and a few operas.

Germaine Tailleferre (1,258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Germaine Tailleferre (French: [ʒɛʁmɛn tɑjfɛʁ]; born Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse; 19 April 1892 – 7 November 1983) was a French composer and the only

Ludovic Halévy (1,474 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 May 1908) was a French author and playwright, best known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's

Philippe Quinault (821 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philippe Quinault (French: [kino]; 3 June 1635 – 26 November 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris. Quinault was educated by the liberality

George Onslow (composer) (2,284 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

André George(s) Louis Onslow (27 July 1784 – 3 October 1853) was a French composer of English descent. His wealth, position and personal tastes allowed

Jean Françaix (1,398 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean René Désiré Françaix (French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ]; 23 May 1912, in Le Mans – 25 September 1997, in Paris) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator

Georges Bizet (8,340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

theatre. He wrote most of his operas in the traditions of Italian and French opera established by such as Donizetti, Rossini, Berlioz, Gounod, and Thomas

Alfred Bruneau (396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. Born in Paris, Bruneau studied the cello as a youth at the Paris Conservatory

Félicien David (890 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Félicien-César David (13 April 1810 – 29 August 1876) was a French composer. Félicien David was born in Cadenet, and began to study music at the age of

Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1,383 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

took place, with royal soldiers). Mondonville's one foray into serious French opera - the genre known as tragédie en musique - was a failure however. He

Amin Maalouf (1,062 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amin Maalouf (French: [maluf]; Arabic: أمين معلوف Arabic pronunciation: [maʕˈluːf]; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French author who has lived

Robert Planquette (839 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sung in 1867 by Lucien Fugère, who went on to be one of the foremost French opera singers of his day. In 1876, the director of the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques

Michel Carré (183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michel Carré (20 October 1821, Besançon – 27 June 1872, Argenteuil) was a prolific French librettist. He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter

Adolphe d'Ennery (736 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adolphe d'Ennery (or Dennery; né Adolphe Philippe; 17 June 1811 – 25 January 1899) was a French playwright and novelist. Born in Paris, his real surname

Opera buffa (1,349 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gioachino Rossini and Gaetano Donizetti. Similar foreign genres such as French opéra comique, English ballad opera, Spanish zarzuela or German Singspiel differed

Georges Van Parys (631 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Georges Van Parys (7 June 1902 in Paris – 28 January 1971 in Paris) was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were

Colette (3,842 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (French: [sidɔni ɡabʁijɛl kɔlɛt]; 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman

Albert Willemetz (455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Willemetz (14 February 1887 – 7 October 1964) was a French librettist. Albert Willemetz was a prolific lyricist. He invented a new type of musical

Henri Meilhac (2,220 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Meilhac (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges

Albert Willemetz (455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Willemetz (14 February 1887 – 7 October 1964) was a French librettist. Albert Willemetz was a prolific lyricist. He invented a new type of musical

Lakmé Cosmetics (449 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cosmetics brand owned by Hindustan Unilever. It was named after the French opera Lakmé, which itself is the French word for the goddess Lakshmi who is

Pauline Viardot (3,036 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

ISBN 9781406751499. Retrieved 11 August 2016. Huebner, Steven (1999). French Opera at the Fin De Siècle. Wagnerism, Nationalism, and Style. Oxford: Oxford

Gustave Charpentier (688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gustave Charpentier (French: [ɡystav ʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; 25 June 1860 – 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise. Charpentier was

Jacques Ibert (1,860 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (15 August 1890 – 5 February 1962) was a French composer of classical music. Having studied music from an early age

Paul Dukas (2,724 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Abraham Dukas (French: [dykɑ(ː)s] or [dyka]; 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring

Gabriel Pierné (1,049 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (16 August 1863 – 17 July 1937) was a French composer, conductor, pianist and organist. Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz.

Michel-Jean Sedaine (557 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michel-Jean Sedaine (2 June 1719 – 17 May 1797) was a French dramatist and librettist, especially noted for his librettos for opéras comiques, in which

Gaspare Spontini (1,065 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

two decades of the 19th century, Spontini was an important figure in French opera, and composed over twenty works. Born in Maiolati, Papal State (now Maiolati

Hervé (composer) (710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Louis-Auguste Florimond Ronger (30 June 1825 – 4 November 1892), who used the pseudonym Hervé (French pronunciation: [ɛʁve]), was a French singer, composer

Spieloper (214 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the ability to act in comedies. The Spieloper was also inspired by the French opéra comique of the late 18th century, a narrowly defined form of opera. The

Robert de Flers (1,015 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist

Catulle Mendès (1,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Catulle Mendès (22 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters. Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, Mendès was born in Bordeaux. After

Jean-François Marmontel (1,322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-François Marmontel (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa maʁmɔ̃tɛl]; 11 July 1723 – 31 December 1799) was a French historian, writer and a member of

Armand Lunel (365 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Armand Lunel (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ lynɛl]; 9 June 1892 – 3 November 1977) was a French writer of Provençal Jewish background. Lunel was born in

Moumour (95 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. The French opera singer Marc Bonnehée was born there in 1828. Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Carmen (8,606 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the tragic death of the main character on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial. After the premiere, most reviews were

Daniel Auber (3,302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera composer

Albert Roussel (2,112 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ ʃaʁl pɔl maʁi ʁusɛl]; 5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer. He spent seven

Ernest Reyer (1,136 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Étienne Ernest Reyer (1 December 1823 – 15 January 1909) was a French opera composer and music critic. Ernest Reyer was born in Marseille. His father

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (927 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (23 December 1689 – 28 October 1755) was a French baroque composer of instrumental music, cantatas, opéra-ballets, and vocal

Camille Erlanger (419 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Camille Erlanger (25 May 1863 – 24 April 1919) was a French opera composer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory under Léo Delibes (composition), Georges

Albert Carré (774 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

demi-siècle d’Opéra-Comique (1900–1950). André Bonne, Paris, 1953. Huebner S. French Opera at the Fin de Siecle. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. From Albert

Antoine Dauvergne (363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

troqueurs, a work which had a major influence on the development of French opéra comique. He died, aged 83, in Lyon. In addition to operas and opera-ballets

Sacha Guitry (2,736 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (French: [gitʁi]; 21 February 1885 – 24 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter

Benjamin Godard (665 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (18 August 1849 – 10 January 1895) was a French violinist and Romantic-era composer of Jewish extraction, best known for his

Eugène Cormon (604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Étienne Piestre, known as Eugène Cormon (5 May 1810 – March 1903), was a French dramatist and librettist. He used his mother's name, Cormon, during

Mélesville (281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baron Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, pen-name Mélesville (13 December 1787 in Paris – 7 November 1865 in Marly-le-Roi) was a French dramatist. The playwright

Ambroise Thomas (3,134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the 2001 edition of Grove, Langham Smith writes, "In the context of French opera of the late 19th century Thomas was a figure of considerable importance

Joseph Canteloube (876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (French pronunciation: [maʁi ʒozɛf kɑ̃tlub də malaʁɛ]; 21 October 1879 – 4 November 1957) was a French composer, musicologist

Edgard Varèse (4,170 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (French: [ɛdɡaʁ viktɔʁ aʃil ʃaʁl vaʁɛz]; also spelled Edgar; December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French composer

Les Arts Florissants (ensemble) (2,243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Les Arts Florissants is a Baroque musical ensemble in residence at the Théâtre de Caen in Caen, France. The organization was founded by conductor William

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (480 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (20 June 1786 – 23 July 1859) was a French Romantic poet and novelist. Desbordes-Valmore was born in Douai. Following the French

Dumanoir (601 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philippe François Pinel, known as Dumanoir (31 July 1806 – 16 November 1865), was a French playwright and librettist. Dumanoir was born in Capesterre-Belle-Eau

Xavier Leroux (347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pieces, but he became known above all as a representative of naturalistic French opera. His masterpiece is the opera Le Chemineau, which was staged six times

Paul Vidal (440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Antonin Vidal (16 June 1863 – 9 April 1931) was a French composer, conductor and music teacher mainly active in Paris. Paul Vidal was born in Toulouse

Julie d'Aubigny (1,683 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1673–1707), better known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin, was a French opera singer. Little is known for certain about her life; her tumultuous career

Emmanuel Théaulon (261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume-Marguerite Théaulon de Lambert (14 August 1787, Aigues-Mortes – 16 November 1841) was a French playwright. A customs inspector

Cendrillon (Isouard) (445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Cendrillon (French: [sɑ̃dʁijɔ̃]; English: Cinderella) is a French opera in three acts by the Maltese-born composer Nicolas Isouard. It takes the form of

Victor Massé (308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Victor Massé (born Félix-Marie Massé; 7 March 1822 – 5 July 1884) was a French composer. Massé was born in Lorient (Morbihan) and studied at the Paris

Eugène Scribe (4,079 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Boston: Twayne. ISBN 978-0-80-576390-4. Lacombe, Hervé (2001). The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley and London: University of California

François Bazin (composer) (284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

[fʁɑ̃.swa ba.zɛ̃]) (4 September 1816 – 2 July 1878) was a well-known French opera composer active during the nineteenth century. Born in Marseille, Bazin

Charles Simon Favart (985 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Simon Favart (13 November 1710 – 12 May 1792) was a French playwright and theatre director. The Salle Favart in Paris is named after him. Born

Jean-François Bayard (628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-François Alfred Bayard (17 March 1796, Charolles, Saône-et-Loire – 20 February 1853, Paris) was a French playwright. He was the nephew of fellow playwright

Pierre Schaeffer (3,290 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: /piːˈɛər ˈhɛnriː məˈriː ˈʃeɪfər/ , French pronunciation: [ʃɛfɛʁ]; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995)

Charles Tournemire (623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Arnould Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were

Henri Sauguet (1,277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri-Pierre Sauguet-Poupard (18 May 1901 – 22 June 1989) was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as part of his professional

Amaury Vassili (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Amaury Vassili Chotard (born 8 June 1989) is a French opera singer and professional tenor. His debut album, Vincerò (2009), went double platinum in France

Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (3 December 1840 – 23 December 1913) was a French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français. He was born at Limoges

François Bazin (composer) (284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

[fʁɑ̃.swa ba.zɛ̃]) (4 September 1816 – 2 July 1878) was a well-known French opera composer active during the nineteenth century. Born in Marseille, Bazin

Amaury Vassili (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Amaury Vassili Chotard (born 8 June 1989) is a French opera singer and professional tenor. His debut album, Vincerò (2009), went double platinum in France

Henri Sauguet (1,277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri-Pierre Sauguet-Poupard (18 May 1901 – 22 June 1989) was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as part of his professional

Charles Tournemire (623 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Arnould Tournemire (22 January 1870 – 3 or 4 November 1939) was a French composer and organist, notable partly for his improvisations, which were

Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy (932 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Victor-Joseph Étienne, called de Jouy (19 October 1764 – 4 September 1846), was a French dramatist who abandoned an early military career for a successful

Véronique Gens (520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

This article about a French opera singer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Pascal Collasse (234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pascal Collasse (or Colasse) (22 January 1649 (baptised) – 17 July 1709) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Rheims, Collasse became a disciple

Henri-Montan Berton (501 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri-Montan Berton (17 September 1767 – 22 April 1844) was a French composer, teacher, and writer, mostly known as a composer of operas for the Opéra-Comique

Nicolas Dalayrac (1,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicolas-Marie d'Alayrac (French: [nikola mari dalerak]; bapt. 13 June 1753 – 26 November 1809), nicknamed the Musician poet, more commonly Nicolas Dalayrac

Jules Massenet (7,993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1884, by which time Massenet had established himself as the leading French opera composer of his generation. Manon, first given at the Opéra-Comique in

François Rebel (103 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François Rebel (19 June 1701 – 7 November 1775) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Paris, the son of the leading composer Jean-Féry Rebel

Henry Février (223 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henry Février (2 October 1875 – 6 July 1957) was a French composer. Henry Février was born in Paris, France, on 2 October 1875, the son of architect Jules

Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (478 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hector-Jonathan Crémieux (10 November 1828 – 30 September 1893) was a French librettist and playwright. His best-known work is his collaboration with Ludovic

Jean Richepin (2,087 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Richepin (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ ʁiʃpɛ̃]; 4 February 1849 – 12 December 1926) was a French poet, novelist and dramatist. Born on February 4, 1849

Ernest Guiraud (1,137 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ernest Guiraud (French: [giʁo]; 23 June 1837 – 6 May 1892) was an American-born French composer and music teacher. He is best known for writing the traditional

Edmond Audran (1,566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Achille Edmond Audran (12 April 1840 – 17 August 1901) was a French composer best known for several internationally successful comic operas and operettas

Charles Lecocq (2,865 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexandre Charles Lecocq (3 June 1832 – 24 October 1918) was a French composer, known for his opérettes and opéras comiques. He became the most prominent

Jean-François Le Sueur (671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-François Le Sueur (more commonly Lesueur; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa lə sɥœʁ]; 15 February 1760 – 6 October 1837) was a French composer, best known for

Adolphe de Leuven (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adolphe de Leuven (29 September 1802 – 14 April 1884) was a French theatre director and a librettist. Also known as Grenvallet, and Count Adolph Ribbing

Gaston Arman de Caillavet (1,205 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gaston Arman de Caillavet (13 March 1869 – 13 January 1915) was a French playwright. Gaston Arman de Caillavet was born on 13 March 1869. He was the son

François-André Danican Philidor (2,747 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François-André Danican Philidor (7 September 1726 – 31 August 1795), often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer

Jean-Joseph Mouret (924 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Joseph Mouret (11 April 1682 in Avignon – 10 December 1738 in Charenton-le-Pont) was a French composer whose dramatic works made him one of the leading

Paul Le Flem (777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie-Paul Achille Auguste Le Flem (18 March 1881 – 31 July 1984) was a French composer and music critic. Born in Radon, Orne, of Breton parentage, and

Parsifal (1982 film) (633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Parsifal is a 1982 West German-French opera film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, based on the opera of the same name by Richard Wagner. It was shown

Philippe Hersant (367 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philippe Hersant (born 21 June 1948 in Rome) is a French composer. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris. Hersant's works are largely published by Éditions

Jérôme Savary (618 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jérôme Savary (27 June 1942 – 4 March 2013) was an Argentine-French theater director and actor. His work has democratized and widened the appeal of musical

Guy Ropartz (1,223 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (French: [ʁɔpaʁts]; 15 June 1864 – 22 November 1955) was a French composer and conductor. His compositions included five symphonies

Albert Wolff (conductor) (1,319 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Albert Louis Wolff (19 January 1884 – 20 February 1970) was a French conductor and composer of Dutch descent. Most of his career was spent in European

Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter (512 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter was a French librettist, translator, writer and librarian born in Paris, France, on 24 April 1828. He died there on 23 February

Laurent Pelly (1,645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Laurent Pelly (born 14 January 1962 in Paris) is a French opera and theatre director. He is sought after by the world's most prestigious houses. With a

Antoine Danchet (179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Antoine Danchet (7 September 1671 – 21 February 1748) was a French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet. Danchet was born in Riom, in the Auvergne

Nicolas Levasseur (294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (12 May 1703 – 11 January 1755) was a French Baroque composer, harpsichordist, organist, and administrator. Born in Turin

Jean Wiener (898 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) (19 March 1896, 14th arrondissement of Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer. Wiener was trained at the

Nicolas Joel (1,211 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicolas Joel or Joël (6 February 1953 – 18 June 2020) was a French opera director and administrator of opera houses. He was general manager of the Théâtre

Henri Rabaud (719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Benjamin Rabaud (10 November 1873 – 11 September 1949) was a French conductor, composer and pedagogue, who held important posts in the French musical

Albéric Magnard (1,181 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard (French pronunciation: [lysjɛ̃ dəni ɡabʁijɛl albeʁik maɲaʁ]; 9 June 1865 – 3 September 1914) was a French composer

Philippe Manoury (1,222 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philippe Manoury (born 19 June 1952) is a French composer. Manoury was born in Tulle and began composition studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris

Sophie Arnould (359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Charles-Marie Widor (2,109 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the late Romantic era. As a composer

Casimir Delavigne (880 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-François Casimir Delavigne (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa kazimiʁ dəlaviɲ]; 4 April 1793 – 11 December 1843) was a French poet and dramatist

Louise (opera) (1,577 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

considered an example of verismo, and marks the beginning of naturalism in French opera. Louise was premiered on 2 February 1900 at the Salle Favart by the Opéra-Comique

Raoul Pugno (737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stéphane Raoul Pugno (23 June 1852 – 3 January 1914 [O.S. 21 December 1913]) was a French composer, teacher, organist, and pianist known for his playing

Alphonse Royer (3,189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alphonse Royer, (10 September 1803 – 11 April 1875) was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written (with

Henri Desmarets (2,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed

Françoise Rosay (979 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

born Françoise Bandy de Nalèche; 19 April 1891 – 28 March 1974) was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty

Sophie Arnould (359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Pierre Gaveaux (808 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Gaveaux (6 October 1760 – 5 February 1825) was a French operatic tenor and composer, notable for creating the role of Jason in Cherubini's Médée

Alphonse Royer (3,189 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alphonse Royer, (10 September 1803 – 11 April 1875) was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written (with

Henri Desmarets (2,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed

Francis de Croisset (1,172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francis de Croisset (French: [fʁɑ̃sis də kʁwasɛ]; born Franz Wiener, 28 January 1877 – 8 November 1937) was a Belgian-born French playwright and opera

Jean-Féry Rebel (566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Féry Rebel (18 April 1666 – 2 January 1747) was an innovative French Baroque composer and violinist. Rebel, a child violin prodigy, was the most famous

Maurice Ohana (499 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maurice Ohana (12 June 1913 – 13 November 1992) was a French composer. Ohana's output includes choral works, string quartets, suites for ten-string guitar

Charles Gounod (9,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Orledge judges that in the 1850s and 1860s Gounod introduced to French opera a combination of "tender, lyrical charm, consummate craftsmanship, and

Opéra national de Montpellier (286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Opéra national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon is an opera company located in the Place de la Comédie in Montpellier, France. The company was established

Jean Roger-Ducasse (440 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Jean Roger-Ducasse studied

Jean Lorrain (886 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Lorrain (9 August 1855 in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime – 30 June 1906), born Paul Alexandre Martin Duval, was a French poet and novelist of the Symbolist

Anton Reicha (4,450 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Wind Quintets Op. 88 No. 2 in E-flat major – 1. Lento – Allegro Moderato No. 2 in E-flat major – 2. Allegretto No. 2 in E-flat major – 3. Poco andante

André Cardinal Destouches (1,104 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

André Cardinal Destouches (sometimes called des Touches) (baptised 6 April 1672 – 7 February 1749) was a French composer best known for the opéra-ballet

Émile Paladilhe (456 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Émile Paladilhe (3 June 1844 – 6 January 1926) was a French composer of the late romantic period. Émile Paladilhe was born in Montpellier. He was a musical

Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (603 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert-Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ nikɔla ʃaʁl bɔksa]; 9 August 1789 – 6 January 1856) was a French harpist and composer. His

Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman (375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman (19 March 1785 – 29 October 1853), known as Pierre Zimmermann and Joseph Zimmermann, was a French pianist, composer,

Ferdinand Hérold (3,325 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold (28 January 1791 – 19 January 1833), better known as Ferdinand Hérold (pronounced [fɛʁdinɑ̃ eʁɔld]), was a French composer

Étienne Lainez (145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Max d'Ollone (1,021 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d'Ollone (13 June 1875 – 15 May 1959) was a 20th-century French composer. Born in Besançon, d'Ollone started composing very

Opéra Bastille (2,328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Opéra Bastille (French: [ɔpeʁa bastij] , "Bastille Opera House") is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. Inaugurated in

Maurice Thiriet (438 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maurice Thiriet (French: [tiʁjɛ]; 2 May 1906 – 28 September 1972) was a French composer of classical and film music. Born in Meulan, Yvelines, Maurice

Jane Rhodes (248 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jane Marie Andrée Rhodes (13 March 1929 – 7 May 2011) was a French opera singer whose voice encompassed both the soprano and high mezzo-soprano ranges

Marcel Landowski (643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marcel François Paul Landowski (18 February 1915 – 23 December 1999) was a French composer, biographer and arts administrator. Born at Pont-l'Abbé, Finistère

François Benoist (309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François Benoist (10 September 1794 – 6 May 1878) was a French organist, pedagogue, and composer. Benoist was born in Nantes on 10 September 1794. He took

Martial Singher (289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Georges Hartmann (244 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Romain-Jean-François "Georges" Hartmann (15 May 1843 – 22 April 1900) was a French music publisher, dramatist and opera librettist (publishing under the

Nicolas Isouard (894 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicolas Isouard (also known as Nicolò, Nicolò Isoiar or Nicolò de Malte; 18 May 1773 – 23 March 1818) was a Franco-Maltese composer. Born in Valletta,

Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo (383 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sylvie Brunet, known as Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, is a contemporary French opera singer (mezzo-soprano). Born to a Sicilian father and a French mother, Brunet

Pierre Perrin (255 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Perrin (c. 1620 – 24 April 1675) was a French poet and librettist. Perrin, sometimes known as L'Abbé Perrin although he never belonged to the clergy

Noël Gallon (186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Noël Jean-Charles André Gallon (11 September 1891 – 26 December 1966) was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several

Carmen: Duets & Arias (810 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

mezzo-soprano Marina Domashenko, and Italian soprano Eva Mei, from the French opéra comique. In 2005, Bocelli recorded the opera Carmen. Myung-whun Chung

Déodat de Séverac (548 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie-Joseph Alexandre Déodat de Séverac (pronounced [deoda də sevəʁak]; 20 July 1872 – 24 March 1921) was a French composer. Séverac was born in Saint-Félix-de-Caraman

Louis Aubert (514 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis François Marie Aubert (19 February 1877 – 9 January 1968) was a French composer. Born in Paramé, Ille-et-Vilaine, Louis Aubert was a child prodigy

Louis-Désiré Véron (460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis-Désiré Véron (1798 in Paris – September 27, 1867 in Paris) was a French opera manager and publisher. Véron originally made his fortune from patent

Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1,431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Antoine Houdar de la Motte (18 January 1672 – 26 December 1731) was a French author. De la Motte was born and died in Paris. In 1693 his comedy, Les Originaux

Aimé Maillart (312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis-Aimé Maillart (March 24, 1817 – May 26, 1871) was a French composer, best known for his operas, particularly Les Dragons de Villars and Lara. Maillart

Camille Saint-Saëns (12,281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

remained neglected, Crichton rates them as important in the history of French opera, as "a bridge between Meyerbeer and the serious French operas of the

Victor Hugo (10,302 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary

Second Empire style (6,248 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

pages 187-190 Maneglier, Hervé, Paris Impérial, p. 188. Giroud, V. French Opera: A Short History. Yale University Press, 2010. Curtiss, pp. 140–41 Dean

Henri Büsser (1,022 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Henri Büsser (16 January 1872 – 30 December 1973) was a French classical composer, organist, conductor and teacher. Among his teachers were César

Louis Varney (504 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, he was also invited to conduct the "French Opera Season" abroad, notably in New Orleans, Louisiana, and this is how Louis

François Francoeur (1,175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François Francœur (8 September 1698 – 5 August 1787) was a French composer and violinist from the late Baroque era and the Classical era. François Francœur

Antoine Mariotte (899 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Antoine Mariotte (22 December 1875 – 30 November 1944) was a French composer, conductor and music administrator. Mariotte was born in Avignon (Vaucluse)

Marcel Delannoy (924 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marcel-François-Georges Delannoy (9 July 1898 – 14 September 1962) was a French composer and critic. He wrote operas, ballets, orchestral works, vocal

Claude Debussy (12,020 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(Achille) Claude Debussy (French: [aʃil klod dəbysi]; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist

Emmanuel Chabrier (6,301 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Chabrier. New York: Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-28574-0. Huebner, Steven (2006). French Opera at the Fin de Siècle. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518954-4

Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (157 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1742 – 10 September 1793) was a French composer of numerous operas as well as a cantata on the storming of the Bastille and several

Antoine Bourseiller (226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Antoine Bourseiller (8 July 1930 – 21 May 2013) was a French comedian and opera and theatre director. Born in Paris in 1930, from 1960 to 1963 Bourseiller

Renée Doria (440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Renée Doria (13 February 1921 – 6 March 2021) was a French opera singer, one of the leading lyric coloratura sopranos of her era in France. Born Renée

André Messager (11,073 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

infrequently revived, historians of music consider him the last major figure in French opéra comique and opérette. Messager was born at Montluçon, Allier, in central

Claude Debussy (12,020 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(Achille) Claude Debussy (French: [aʃil klod dəbysi]; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist

Joseph Méry (1,410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Méry (21 January 1797 – 17 June 1866) was a French writer, journalist, novelist, poet, playwright and librettist. An ardent romanticist, he collaborated

Paul Siraudin (523 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Paul-Désiré Siraudin (18 December 1812 – 8 September 1883) was a French playwright and librettist. He also used the pen names Paul de Siraudin de

Hanoi Opera House (709 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Hanoi Opera House (French: Opéra de Hanoï), or the Grand Opera House (Vietnamese: Nhà hát lớn Hà Nội, French: Grand Opéra) is an opera house in central

Louis Gallet (515 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Gallet (14 February 1835 in Valence, Drôme – 16 October 1898) was a French writer of operatic libretti, plays, romances, memoirs, pamphlets, and

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (4 December 1667 – 22 September 1737) was a French composer of the baroque period. He was born Michel Pignolet in Andelot

Mireille Delunsch (319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Jean Galbert de Campistron (524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Galbert de Campistron (3 August 1656 – 11 May 1723) was a French dramatist. Campistron was born in Toulouse, France to a noble family. At the age

Georges Dandelot (226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Georges Édouard Dandelot (2 December 1895 – 17 August 1975) was a French composer and teacher. Dandelot was born in Paris. His father was Alfred Dandelot

Henri Chivot (456 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Charles Chivot (13 November 1830 – 18 September 1897) was a French writer and playwright, mostly known as an operetta librettist. Henri Chivot was

Théodore Dubois (2,987 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Clément François Théodore Dubois (24 August 1837 – 11 June 1924) was a French Romantic composer, organist, and music teacher. After study at the Paris

Robert Cambert (458 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Robert Cambert (c. 1628–1677) was a French composer principally of opera. His opera Pomone was the first actual opera in French. Born in Paris c. 1628

Lucien Muratore (375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Guillemette Laurens (244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Alfred Delacour (703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alfred Delacour or Alfred-Charlemagne Delacour, real name Pierre-Alfred Lartigue, (3 September 1817 – 31 March 1883 ) was a 19th-century French playwright

Toreador Song (1,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

toast, je peux vous le rendre" ("I return your toast to you"), from the French opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and

Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges (2,546 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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

Arthur Honegger (9,205 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arthur Honegger (French: [aʁtyʁ ɔnɛɡɛːʁ]; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life

François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif (382 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif (1687, Paris – 19 November 1770, Paris) was a French writer and poet, of a family originally of Scots origin. He

Claude Terrasse (433 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Claude Terrasse (27 January 1867 – 30 June 1923) was a French composer of operettas. Terrasse was born in L'Arbresle, Rhône. He became known by writing

Les cloches de Corneville (film) (96 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Elsie Craven, Moya Mannering and Leslie Stiles. It was based on the 1876 French opera Les cloches de Corneville by Robert Planquette. It was made at Bushey

Louis-Benoît Picard (363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis-Benoît Picard (29 July 1769 in Paris – 31 December 1828 in Paris) was a French playwright, actor, novelist, poet and music director. Son of a lawyer

Maurice Ravel (12,971 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with

Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (412 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (1770, in Pélissanne – 25 June 1811, in Fondi) was a French poet, brother of the journalist Jean-Baptiste Esménard and the father

Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (653 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis-Emmanuel Jadin (21 September 1768 – 11 April 1853) was a French composer, pianist and harpsichordist. Jadin was born in Versailles. He learned piano

Gabriel Fauré (9,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers

François-Benoît Hoffman (889 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François-Benoît Hoffman (11 July 1760 – 25 April 1828) was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos, including those

Henri Tomasi (3,083 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Frédien Tomasi (pronounced [ɑ̃ʁi fʁedjɛ̃ tomazi]; 17 August 1901 – 13 January 1971) was a French classical composer and conductor. He was noted for

Le siège de Corinthe (1,625 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which was written by Cesare della Valle. Le siège was Rossini's first French opera (known also in its Italian version as L'assedio di Corinto) and was first

Édouard Blau (123 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Édouard Blau (30 May 1836 – 7 January 1906) was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He was a cousin of Alfred Blau, another librettist of the same

Victorin de Joncières (489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Félix-Ludger Rossignol, known as Victorin de Joncières (12 April 1839 – 26 October 1903), was a French composer and music critic. Son of a political writer

Pierre Carmouche (449 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Carmouche (9 April 1797 - 9 December 1868) was a French playwright and chansonnier. He wrote more than 200 successful plays, comedies, comédies

Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (658 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marcel Auguste Louis Samuel-Rousseau (né Rousseau; 18 August 1882 – 11 June 1955) was a French composer, organist, and opera director. Born in Paris, he

Laurencin (author) (50 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Laurencin, born Paul-Aimé Chapelle, (10 January 1806 - 9 December 1890) was a French playwright and librettist. He authored numerous theatre plays, vaudevilles

Bruno Mantovani (881 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bruno Mantovani (born 8 October 1974) is a French composer. He has been awarded first prizes from the Conservatoire de Paris which he joined in 1993. His

Ernest Boulanger (composer) (696 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger (16 September 1815 – 14 April 1900) was a French composer of comic operas and a conductor. He was more known, however

Paul Ferrier (294 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Ferrier (29 March 1843 - September 1920) was a French dramatist, who also provided libretti for several composers, especially Varney and Serpette

Camille du Locle (409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Camille du Locle (16 July 1832 – 9 October 1903) was a French theatre manager and a librettist. He was born in Orange, France. From 1862 he served as assistant

Paul Milliet (688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Milliet (14 February 1848 – 21 November 1924) was a French playwright and librettist of the Parisian Belle Époque. His opera librettos include Jules

Henri Christiné (569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Marius Christiné (27 December 1867 – 25 November 1941) was a French composer of Swiss birth. The son of a French Savoyard watchmaker, Christiné was

Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer) (556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

example of Christoph Willibald Gluck, then the greatest influence on French opera, but when Électre failed, Gluck rejected any association with the younger

Lockroy (298 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (February 17, 1803 – January 19, 1891) was a French actor and playwright. Born in Turin as the son of Baron General

Léon Pillet (1,790 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Léon Pillet (6 December 1803 – 20 March 1868), was a 19th-century French journalist, civil servant, and director of the Paris Opera from 1840 to 1847.

Angers-Nantes Opéra (101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Angers-Nantes Opéra was created in January 2003 through the fusion of the opera companies of Angers and of Nantes, in order to give fresh impetus to

Napoléon Henri Reber (534 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Napoléon Henri Reber (21 October 1807 – 24 November 1880) was a French composer. Reber was born in Mulhouse, Alsace, and studied with Anton Reicha and

Bruno Mantovani (881 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bruno Mantovani (born 8 October 1974) is a French composer. He has been awarded first prizes from the Conservatoire de Paris which he joined in 1993. His

Louis de Cahusac (298 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis de Cahusac (6 April 1706 – 22 June 1759) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist, and Freemason, most famous for his work with the composer

Émile de Najac (529 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Comte Émile de Najac (December 1828 – 11 April 1889) was a French librettist. He was a prolific writer during the Second Empire and early part of the Third

Léon Pillet (1,790 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Léon Pillet (6 December 1803 – 20 March 1868), was a 19th-century French journalist, civil servant, and director of the Paris Opera from 1840 to 1847.

Théâtre Lyrique (9,551 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

4 September 1852 with the premiere of a particularly noteworthy new French opéra comique, Adolphe Adam's three-act Si j'étais roi (If I Were King), which

William Bertrand Busnach (664 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

William Bertrand Busnach (7 March 1832, Paris – 20 January 1907, Paris) was a French dramatist. Busnach was a nephew of the composer Fromental Halévy.

Jean Giraudeau (849 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera singer

Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi (1,267 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, also known by the pseudonym Norbert Lorédan, (21 November 1865 – 30 January 1943) was a French theatre director, librettist,

Louis Anseaume (212 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

tableau parlant (1769), music by Grétry He was one of the founders of the French opéra comique genre. The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan

Isabelle Poulenard (60 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Olivier Py (697 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Olivier Py (French pronunciation: [pi]; born 24 July 1965 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French stage director, actor and writer. In 1997, Py became

Louis Musy (273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera singer

Madeleine Milhaud (297 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Madeleine Milhaud Milhaud (22 March 1902 – 17 January 2008) was a French actress and librettist. She was both cousin to and wife of composer Darius Milhaud

Pierre Max Dubois (885 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Max Dubois, sometimes given as Pierre-Max Dubois (1 March 1930 – 29 August 1995) was a French composer of classical music, conductor, and music

André Bloch (composer) (179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

André Bloch (14 January 1873, in Wissembourg – 7 August 1960, in Paris) was a French composer and music educator. Bloch studied with André Gedalge, Ernest

Franc-Nohain (277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maurice Étienne Legrand, who published under the pseudonym Franc-Nohain (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃.nɔ.ɛ̃]; 25 October 1872 – 18 October 1934), was a

Aria (1,984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

years of the century, arias in the Italian style began to take over in French opera, giving rise eventually to the French genre of ariette, normally in a

Jérôme Deschamps (1,175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jérôme Deschamps (born 5 October 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) is an actor, director and stage author, as well as a cinema actor and director associated with

Camille Maurane (314 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Élisabeth Duparc (158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (255 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Benjamin François de la Borde (5 September 1734 – 22 July 1794) was a French composer, writer on music and fermier général (farm tax collector). Born

Zelia Trebelli-Bettini (247 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Émile Pessard (766 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard (29 May 1843 – 10 February 1917) was a French composer. Pessard was born and died in Paris. He studied at the Conservatoire

Jean-Baptiste Lully fils (191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Baptiste Lully fils (Paris, 6 August 1665 – 9 March 1743) was a French musician and the second son of the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. He was also

Gabriel de Lurieu (683 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gabriel de Lurieu (real name Gabriel-Zéphirin Gonyn de Lurieu; Paris, 28 October 1799 (7 brumaire year VIII) – Paris, 5 February 1889 ) was a French author

Louis Lacoste (composer) (226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Louis Lacoste, also given as De La Coste (c. 1675 – c. 1750) was a French composer of the Baroque era. He was a singer, first appearing in the chorus of

Francis Poulenc (11,328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʁsɛl pulɛ̃k]; 7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions

Alexandre Tansman (5,570 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexander Tansman (Polish: Aleksander Tansman, French: Alexandre Tansman; 12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor

Albert Millaud (533 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Albert Millaud was a French journalist, writer and stage author, born in Paris, 13 January 1844, and died in the same city on 23 October 1892. He was the

Eugène Grangé (711 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eugène Grangé (16 December 1810 – 1 March 1887) was a French playwright, librettist, chansonnier and goguettier. The son of Pierre-Joseph Basté and Louise-Thérèse

Delphine Ugalde (560 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gabrielle Delphine Ugalde, née Beaucé (3 December 1829 – 19 July 1910), was a French soprano and composer. She was the mother of Marguerite Ugalde. Delphine

Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (355 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (19 June 1843 – 8 September 1917) was a French composer. Lefebvre was born in Paris, the son of painter Charles Lefebvre, and

Strasbourg Opera House (374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Strasbourg Opera House (French: Opéra de Strasbourg), located on Place Broglie on the Grande Île in the city center of Strasbourg, in the French department

Antoine Trial (283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Thomas Sauvage (120 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Thomas-Marie-François Sauvage (1794 - May 1877) was a French dramatist, theatre director and critic. He collaborated with Adolphe Adam (an opéra comique

Paul Ladmirault (1,153 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Émile Ladmirault (8 December 1877 – 30 October 1944) was a French composer and music critic whose music expressed his devotion to Brittany. Claude

François-Hippolyte Barthélémon (578 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François Hippolyte Barthélemon (27 July 1741 – 20 July 1808) was a French violinist, pedagogue, and composer active in England. François Barthélemon was

Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (1,129 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel (28 June 1736 – 1 May 1809) was a French-German writer and translator from the Pfeffel family. His texts were put to music by Ludwig

René Fauchois (1,160 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

René Fauchois (31 August 1882 – 10 February 1962) was a French dramatist, librettist and actor. Stagestruck from his youth, he moved from his native Rouen

Passepied (941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

courtly use in the 16th century and is found frequently in 18th-century French opera and ballet, particularly in pastoral scenes, and latterly also in baroque

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (1,314 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (24 January 1763 – 14 April 1842) was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution

Dinorah (2,015 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

originally Le pardon de Ploërmel (The Pardon of Ploërmel), is an 1859 French opéra comique in three acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto

Reynaldo Hahn (6,966 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Reynaldo Hahn de Echenagucia (9 August 1874 – 28 January 1947) was a Venezuelan-born French composer, conductor, music critic, and singer. He is best known

Alfred Duru (1,083 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Alfred Duru (22 November 1829 – 28 December 1889) was a 19th-century French playwright and operetta librettist who collaborated on more than 40 librettos

Vincent Boussard (1,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Vincent Boussard (born 21 April 1969) is a French opera and theatre director. First a specialist for early opera, he became known for his versions of romantic

Henri Cohen (composer) (430 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Henri Cohen (21 April 1806 – 17 May 1880) was a French music theorist, composer, and numismatist of Dutch birth. Born in Amsterdam, Cohen moved with his

Isabelle Aboulker (380 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Isabelle Aboulker (born 23 October 1938) is a French composer, particularly known for her operas and other vocal works. In 1999, she gained a prize from

Henri Cohen (composer) (430 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Henri Cohen (21 April 1806 – 17 May 1880) was a French music theorist, composer, and numismatist of Dutch birth. Born in Amsterdam, Cohen moved with his

Devriès family (827 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Devriès family were operatic singers over three generations, of Dutch descent. They were mainly active in France, Belgium and the USA in the second

Simon-Joseph Pellegrin (1,194 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin (1663 – 5 September 1745) was a French poet and playwright, a librettist who collaborated with Jean-Philippe Rameau and

Émile Perrin (331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Émile-César-Victor Perrin was a French painter, mainly known as a theatre director and impresario, born in Rouen on 9 January 1814, died 8 October 1885

Charles Cuvillier (644 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas La reine s'amuse

Le devin du village (453 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Le devin du village ("The Village Soothsayer") is a one-act French opera (intermède) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who also wrote the libretto. It was the

Paul Armand Silvestre (1,633 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Armand Silvestre (18 April 1837 – 19 February 1901) was a 19th-century French poet and conteur born in Paris. He studied at the École polytechnique

Opéra station (Paris Métro) (1,061 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Opéra (French: [ɔpeʁa] ) is a station on Lines 3, 7 and 8 of the Paris Métro. It is named after the nearby Opéra Garnier. Located at the end of the Avenue

Paul Gay (206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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2003 Cannes Film Festival (1,999 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

showcased a diverse selection of international films from various genres. French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer Patrice Chéreau was

Eugène Bozza (2,564 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eugène Joseph Bozza (4 April 1905 – 28 September 1991) was a French composer and violinist. He was one of the most prolific composers of chamber music

Marie Fel (189 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie Fel (24 October 1713 – 2 February 1794) was a French opera singer and a daughter of the organist Henri Fel. Marie Fel was born at Bordeaux. She made

Blanche Deschamps-Jéhin (332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Opéra national de Lorraine (497 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Opéra national de Lorraine is a French opera company and opera house, located in the city of Nancy, France in the province of Lorraine, France. Formerly

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (9,423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (French: [maʁk ɑ̃twan ʃaʁpɑ̃tje]; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of

Opéra de Dijon (1,404 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

l'Opéra et l'Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne". Retrieved 10 March 2015 (in French). Opéra de Dijon. Artistes associés. Retrieved 10 March 2015 (in French). Official

Le marchand de Venise (276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Le Marchand de Venise (The Merchant of Venice) is a French opera in three acts by Reynaldo Hahn. The libretto was by Miguel Zamacoïs, after Shakespeare's

Philippe Gille (199 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Philippe Emile François Gille (10 December 1831 – 19 March 1901) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris. He wrote

Albert Lortzing (1,471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel. Lortzing was born in Berlin

Jean Prodromidès (258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Prodromidès (3 July 1927 – 17 March 2016) was a French composer. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1927 in a musical family. His father, who was

Dominique Meyer (503 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Dominique Meyer (born 1955, Alsace, France) is a French politician, economist, academic, and opera director. From 1989 to 1990 he was General Director

Pierre de Bréville (895 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Eugène Onfroy de Bréville (21 February 1861 – 24 September 1949) was a French composer. Pierre de Bréville was born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse. Following

Paul Lacôme (901 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul-Jean-Jacques Lacôme d'Estalenx (4 March 1838 – 12 December 1920) was a French composer. Between 1870 and the turn of the century he produced a series

Louis Beydts (1,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Beydts (/bets/) was a French composer, music critic and theatre director, born 29 June 1895 in Bordeaux and died on 15 August 1953 at Caudéran in

Michel Blavet (868 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michel Blavet (March 13, 1700 – October 28, 1768) was a French composer and flute virtuoso. Although Blavet taught himself to play almost every instrument

Jean Cras (2,207 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Émile Paul Cras (French: [ʒɑ̃ kʁaz]; 22 May 1879 – 14 September 1932) was a 20th-century French composer and career naval officer. His musical compositions

Toussaint Bertin de la Doué (111 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Toussaint Bertin de la Doué (or Thomas Bertin de la Doué) (1680 – 6 February 1743) was a French composer of the Baroque era. He worked as an organist for

Eugène Leterrier (209 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Eugène Leterrier (1843 – 22 December 1884 in Paris) was a French librettist. Leterrier worked at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris but then turned to the theatre

Clémence de Grandval (596 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Clémence de Grandval (21 January 1828 – 15 January 1907), born as Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset and also known as Vicomtesse de Grandval and Marie Grandval

François Bouvard (176 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François Bouvard (c. 1684–1760) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Originally from Lyon, Bouvard began his career as a singer at the Paris Opéra

Nicolas-François Guillard (680 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicolas-François Guillard (16 January 1752 – 26 December 1814) was a French librettist. He was born in Chartres and died in Paris, the recipient of a government

Louis Fuzelier (1,387 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Fuzelier (also Fuselier, Fusellier, Fusillier, Fuzellier; 1672 or 1674 – 19 September 1752) was a French playwright. Fuzelier was born and died in

Michel Dieulafoy (371 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph-Marie-Armand-Michel Dieulafoy (1762, Toulouse – 13 December 1823) was a French librettist and playwright. He was received lawyer in Toulouse and

Aimé Leborne (397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne (or Aimé Le Borne) (29 December 1797 – 2 April 1866) was French composer and music educator, who made his career in Paris.

Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (14 January 1762, Lyon – 26 June 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer, politician, scholar, and historian. On the convocation of the

Charles-Hubert Gervais (460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles-Hubert Gervais (19 February 1671 – 14 January 1744) was a French composer of the Baroque era. The son of a valet to King Louis XIV's brother, Monsieur

Paul Lhérie (438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Michel Paul Guy de Chabanon (437 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Michel-Paul Guy de Chabanon (1730, Saint-Domingue – 10 June 1792, Paris) was a violinist, composer, music theorist, and connoisseur of French literature

Charles Hardouin (136 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Jean-Philippe Lafont (274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Mademoiselle Beaumesnil (934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stage name of Mlle Beaumesnil (30 August 1748 – 5 October 1813), was a French opera singer and composer. Mlle Beaumesnil began working in minor comedy roles

Sophie Gay (1,282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie Françoise Sophie Gay (born Nichault de la Valette; 1 July 1776 – 2 March 1852) was a French author who was born in Paris. Marie Françoise Sophie

Maurice Emmanuel (934 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie François Maurice Emmanuel (2 May 1862 – 14 December 1938) was a French composer of classical music and musicologist born in Bar-sur-Aube, a small

Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre (300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first youth—are still called "jeunes dugazons" and "mères dugazons" in French opera. Examples of the first are Jenny in La dame blanche and Berthe de Simiane

Théodore Anne (811 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Théodore Anne (7 April 1797 – 12 August 1869) was a French playwright, librettist, and novelist. Engaged in the army in 1814, until the July Revolution

Léon Lévy Brunswick (236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Léon Lévy Brunswick (20 April 1805, in Paris – 29 July 1859, in Le Havre) was a French playwright. He started as a journalist before turning to theater

Gaston Serpette (1,831 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Charles Antoine Gaston Serpette (4 November 1846 – 3 November 1904) was a French composer, best known for his operettas. After winning the prestigious

Adolphe Jaime (255 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adolphe Jaime, called Jaime fils, (1825 in Paris – 1901 in Asnières-sur-Seine) was a 19th-century French vaudevillist and librettist. He was the son of

Mademoiselle Beaumesnil (934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

stage name of Mlle Beaumesnil (30 August 1748 – 5 October 1813), was a French opera singer and composer. Mlle Beaumesnil began working in minor comedy roles

Gaston Serpette (1,831 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Charles Antoine Gaston Serpette (4 November 1846 – 3 November 1904) was a French composer, best known for his operettas. After winning the prestigious

Jean-Philippe Lafont (274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Opera in New Orleans (1,266 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

was the Théâtre d'Orléans. That theater was succeeded in 1859 by the French Opera House, located on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. Living in a cosmopolitan

Robert Massard (380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

associated with the French repertory. He is one of a number of outstanding French opera singers of the postwar era. Massard was born in Pau, France, and was

Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (496 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (17 November 1772 – 9 August 1827) was a French composer, dramatist, and songwriter. Désaugiers is easily confused in

Félix Vieuille (719 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera singer

Acante et Céphise (884 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

richly scored and contains the first surviving use of clarinets in a French opera. They appear in the overture, which contains a section imitating the

André Wormser (276 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

André Alphonse Toussaint Wormser (1 November 1851 – 4 November 1926) was a French Romantic composer. André Wormser was born in Paris and studied with Antoine

Théophile Marion Dumersan (1,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Théophile Marion Dumersan (4 January 1780, Plou, Cher – 13 April 1849, Paris) was a French writer of plays, vaudevilles, poetry, novels, chanson collections

Charles Paul de Kock (1,026 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Paul de Kock (May 21, 1793 in Passy, Paris – April 27, 1871 in Paris) was a French novelist. Although one of the most popular writers of his day

Grand opera (3,049 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

William Fry for Ann Childe Seguin to take the title role in the 1840s. 'French opera of the Romantic period, sung throughout, generally in five acts, grandiose

Francis Thomé (244 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francis Thomé (18 October 1850 – 16 November 1909), was a French pianist and composer. He was born in Port Louis, Mauritius, and studied at the Paris Conservatoire

Georges Thill (460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Georges Thill (14 December 1897 – 17 October 1984) was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor. Born

Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul (502 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul (10 June 1790 – 10 March 1875) was a French composer and music educator. He served as the first director of the Royal Conservatory

Henri Dupin (100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Henri Dupin (1 September 1791 – 5 April 1887) was a French librettist and dramatist. He authored more than 200 pieces, of which fifty were written

Germain Delavigne (163 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Marie Germain Delavigne (1 February 1790 – 3 November 1868) was a French playwright and librettist. Delavigne was born in Giverny to Louis-Augustin-Anselme

Vincent Isola (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Vincent Isola (24 July 1862 in Blida, Algeria – 31 August 1947 in Paris) was a French theatre director. Along with his older brother Émile Isola with whose

Joseph-Bernard Rosier (594 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph-Bernard Rosier (18 October 1804 – 12 October 1880) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist. He first worked as a solicitor's clerk before

Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux (216 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux (1745–1797) was a French composer born in Paris. According to music critic François-Joseph Fétis, Méreaux studied music

Louis Lacombe (566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Louis Trouillon-Lacombe (26 November 1818 – 30 September 1884) was a French pianist and composer. Lacombe was born in Bourges (Cher), the brother

Martha Angelici (313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Amédée de Jallais (1,458 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amédée de Jallais (17 December 1826 – 31 January 1909) was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier. The son of a lieutenant

Un ballo in maschera (3,685 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

melody of Riccardo's first aria La rivedrà nell'estasi. Influence of French opera is felt in the first scene, both in the vocal writing for Oscar the page-boy

Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

write his envoi". His second envoi [first is not known at present] was a French opera titled Meo Patacca on a text by Berneri. On 27 November 1864, Irvine

Bernard de Bury (545 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bernard de Bury or Buri (20 August 1720 – 19 November 1785) was a French musician and court composer of the late Baroque era. Bernard de Bury was born

Marie Antier (186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marie Antier (1687 in Lyon – 3 December 1747 in Paris) was a French opera singer (soprano). She was trained in singing and acting by Marthe Le Rochois

Charles Dupeuty (2,409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Désiré Dupeuty (6 February 1798 – 20 October 1865), was a 19th-century French librettist and playwright. After he studied at the Lycée Impérial

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Léon Battu was a French dramatist, born 1829 in Paris, where he died on 22 November 1857. The son of Pantaléon Battu (1799–1870), a violinist and assistant

Georges Hüe (513 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Georges Adolphe Hüe (6 May 1858 – 7 June 1948) was a French composer of classical music. Hüe was born in Versailles into a noted family of architects.

Edmond Gondinet (1,639 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edmond Gondinet (born 7 March 1828 in Laurière, Haute-Vienne, France) was a French playwright and librettist. This author, nearly forgotten today, produced

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In America, the opera was first performed on 24 December 1891 at the French Opera House in New Orleans, and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan performed it

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Jacques Aubert (30 September 1689 – 19 May 1753), also known as Jacques Aubert le Vieux (Jacques Aubert the Elder), was a French composer and violinist

Amable Tastu (746 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Amable Tastu, born Sabine Casimire Amable Voïart, (30 August 1795 - 10 January 1885) was a 19th-century French poet and writer (femme de lettres). Amable

Raymond Gallois-Montbrun (79 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raymond Gallois-Montbrun (15 August 1918, Saigon – 13 August 1994, Paris) was a French violinist and composer. He studied violin and composition at the

Graciane Finzi (382 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Graciane Finzi (born 10 July 1945) is a Morocco-born French composer. Graciane Finzi was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and studied music at the Casablanca

Louis Clapisson (754 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Clapisson (15 September 1808 – 19 March 1866) was a French composer and violinist. He composed numerous art songs as well as 22 operas, largely in

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Stéphane André Braunschweig (born 5 July 1964) is a French theatre director. Born in Paris, the son of a lawyer and a psychoanalyst mother, Braunschweig

Alain Vanzo (883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alain Vanzo (April 2, 1928 – January 27, 2002) was a French opera singer and composer, one of few French tenors of international standing in the postwar

Jacques Offenbach (12,771 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques Offenbach (/ˈɒfənbɑːx/; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly

Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu (284 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Caroline or simply Mme) Branchu (2 November 1780 – 14 October 1850) was a French opera soprano with origins from the free people of colour of Saint-Domingue

Le Huron (160 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Le Huron (The Huron) is a French opéra comique in two acts by André Grétry. The libretto is by Jean-François Marmontel based on the story L'Ingénu (1767)

François Beaumavielle (116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Louis-Armand Chardin (482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera singer

Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin (495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Théodore Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin or Wekerlin (9 November 1821 – 20 May 1910) was a French composer and music publisher from Alsace. Weckerlin was born

Émile Isola (432 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Émile Isola was born on 4 September 1860 in Blida, Algeria and died in Paris on 17 May 1945. Along with his younger brother Vincent Isola with whose life

Édouard Brisebarre (270 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edouard-Louis-Alexandre Brisebarre (Paris 12 February 1815 – 17 December 1871 10th arrondissement of Paris) was a 19th-century French playwright. Died

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Stéphane André Braunschweig (born 5 July 1964) is a French theatre director. Born in Paris, the son of a lawyer and a psychoanalyst mother, Braunschweig

André Barde (183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

André Barde was the pseudonym of André Bourdonneau (July 1874, Meudon – October 1945, Paris), a French writer best known for his libretti for operettas

Théodore Labarre (597 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Théodore François Joseph Berry Labarre (23 March 1805 – 9 March 1870) was a French harpist and composer. He lived in Paris and in London and was awarded

Jacques Lenot (136 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques Lenot (born 29 August 1945) is a French composer. His compositional techniques are derived from serialism. Corraziari, Andréa. 2007. "Les études

Jules Adenis (734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jules-Adenis de Colombeau (28 June 1823 – 1900) was a 19th-century French opera librettist, playwright, and journalist. Adenis was born in Paris and studied

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Cover of French Opera Padmâvatî. c.1923 Padmâvatî is an opera in two acts by the French composer Albert Roussel. The libretto, by Louis Laloy, is based

Pierre-Joseph Bernard (320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Joseph Bernard (26 August 1708 – 1 November 1775), called Gentil-Bernard by Voltaire for the measured grace of his discreetly erotic verses, was

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Charles Lenepveu (814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles-Ferdinand Lenepveu (4 October 1840 – 16 August 1910), was a French composer and teacher. Destined for a career as a lawyer, he defied his family

Charles Duveyrier (198 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Duveyrier (12 April 1803 – 10 November 1866) was a French playwright and Saint-Simonianism ideologist, born on April 12, 1803, in Paris, where

Marie-Louise Desmatins (209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Claude Arrieu (1,588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louise-Marie Simon (30 November 1903 – 7 March 1990), pen name Claude Arrieu, was a prolific French composer. She wrote hundreds of works in varying formats

Étienne Tréfeu (400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Étienne Victor Tréfeu (de Tréval) (born Saint-Lô, Manche, September 25, 1821 – died Paris, June, 1903), was a French librettist, song writer and theatre

Pierre Capdevielle (musician) (496 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Pierre Capdevielle (1 February 1906 – 9 July 1969) was a French conductor, composer, and music critic. In 1938 he was awarded the Prix Blumenthal and in

Rouen Opera House (640 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Normandy Opera House - Theatre of Arts (French: Opéra de Rouen Normandie - Théâtre des arts) is a French opera house located in Rouen, Normandy. It is

Victor Dourlen (743 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Victor Charles Paul Dourlen (3 November 1780 – 8 January 1864) was a French composer and music teacher at the Conservatoire de Paris during the first half

Françoise Pollet (205 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Paul Burani (273 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Burani (born Urbain Roucoux; Paris, 26 March 1845 – Paris, 9 October 1901), was a French author, actor, songwriter and librettist. He had a short

Aucassin et Nicolette (Grétry opera) (661 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

tems (Aucassin and Nicolette, or The Customs of the Good Old Days) is a French opéra comique by André Grétry. It takes the form of a comédie mise en musique

Sophie Bawr (358 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baroness Sophie de Bawr (8 October 1773 – 31 December 1860), born Alexandrine-Sophie Goury de Champgrand, was a French writer, playwright and composer

Gabriel Grovlez (889 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the Opéra de Paris, Grovlez edited collections of arias from early French opera, which were influential in England. He also wrote reviews for Paris music

Opéra bouffe (111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera genre

Mady Mesplé (1,253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mady Mesplé (7 March 1931 – 30 May 2020) was a French opera singer who was considered the leading coloratura soprano of her generation in France, and sometimes

Françoise Journet (192 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (734 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Frédéric Edelmann (born Johann Friedrich Edelmann; 5 May 1749 – 17 July 1794) was a French classical composer. He was born in Strasbourg to a Protestant

Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson (286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson, known as Delestre-Poirson (22 August 1790, in Paris – 19 November 1859) was a French playwright and theatre director

Auguste Vaucorbeil (1,206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the French Assemblée nationale Vaucorbeil had lamented the failure of French opera houses to stage these works in the 19th century. In 1880 he instituted

Paul Collin (421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul Collin (12 July 1843 – 5 February 1915) was a French poet, writer, translator and librettist. Collin was born in Conches-en-Ouche. In the 18th and

Désiré-Alexandre Batton (163 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Désiré-Alexandre Batton (January 2, 1798 in Paris – October 15, 1855 in Versailles) was a French composer. A student of Luigi Cherubini at the Conservatoire

Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre (165 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, sieur de Langlade, was an 18th-century French novelist and playwright born in Cahors in 1662 and died 30 September 1756

List of operas by Ambroise Thomas (70 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

This is a list of the complete operas of the French opera composer Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896). All premieres took place in Paris unless otherwise noted

Elizabeth Vidal (122 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Le feste d'Apollo (835 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

consists of a prologue and three self-contained acts on the model of French opéra-ballet (the court of Parma was passionately interested in French culture)

Clairval (292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera singer

Laurent Petitgirard (2,039 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Laurent Petitgirard (born 10 June 1950, in Paris) is a French classical composer and conductor. Laurent Petitgirard was born in Paris on 10 June 1950.

1723 in Sweden (333 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

obliged ensure that their children knows how to read and write. - A French opera company, the Académie royale de musique (Stockholm), are employed to

Isis (Lully) (920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Isis is a French opera (tragédie en musique) in a prologue and five acts with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Philippe Quinault, based on

Solange Michel (325 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the 1930s to the 1970s. She was particularly associated with the French opera repertory and was one of the most popular interpreters of the title heroine

Nicolas Dezède (175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicolas-Alexandre Dezède (c.1740 in Lyon – 11 September 1798, in Paris) was an 18th-century French composer born from unknown parents. Dezède presented

Pierre Vachon (286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Vachon (3 June 1738 – 7 October 1803) was a French composer. Vachon was born in Avignon, France. He wrote around thirty string quartets, various

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (1,675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Pons-Guillaume Viennet (18 November 1777 – 10 July 1868) was a French politician, playwright and poet. He was also a member of the Académie française

Victor Roger (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Victor Roger (22 July 1853 – 2 December 1903) was a French composer. He is best known for his operettas, particularly the lighter kind known as the "vaudeville-opérette"

Esclarmonde (3,697 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Esclarmonde (French pronunciation: [ɛsklaʁmɔ̃d]) is an opéra (French: opéra romanesque) in four acts and eight tableaux, with prologue and epilogue, by

Thésée (852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(French: [tese]; lit. 'Theseus') is a tragédie en musique, an early type of French opera, in a prologue and five acts with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully and a

Victor Roger (420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Victor Roger (22 July 1853 – 2 December 1903) was a French composer. He is best known for his operettas, particularly the lighter kind known as the "vaudeville-opérette"

Toulon Opera (385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Toulon Opera (L'opéra de Toulon) is a French opera house located in Toulon. The second-largest opera house in France, after the Palais Garnier in Paris

Raoul Laparra (421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Raoul Laparra (13 May 1876 – 4 April 1943) was a French composer. Born in Bordeaux, Laparra studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with André Gedalge, Jules

Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre (165 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Louis-Ignace de La Serre, sieur de Langlade, was an 18th-century French novelist and playwright born in Cahors in 1662 and died 30 September 1756

Jules Prével (114 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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

Jules Moinaux (773 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jules Moinaux, real name Joseph-Désiré Moineaux or Moineau (24 October 1815 – 4 December 1895) was a 19th-century French writer, playwright, and librettist

Jules Duprato (425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jules Laurent Anacharsis Duprato (20 August 1827 – 20 May 1892) was a 19th-century French composer. A student of Aimé Leborne at the Conservatoire de Paris

Clairval (292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera singer

Tenor (2,997 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

rarely will a singer specialize in these roles for an entire career. In French opéra comique, supporting roles requiring a thin voice but good acting are

Jean-Blaise Martin (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(February 24, 1768 in Paris – October 28, 1837 in Tourzel-Ronzières) was a French opera singer whose tessitura lay between tenor and baritone, which became later

Monic Cecconi-Botella (277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Monic Gabrielle Cecconi-Botella (born 30 September 1936) is a French pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Courbevoie and studied at the

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René de Galard de Béarn, marquis de Brassac (1699 – October 1771), member of the noble family de Galard, was a French soldier and amateur composer of the

Jean-Alexandre Talazac (255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Jacques Féréol Mazas (323 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

For Mazas Prison, see here. Jacques Féréol Mazas (23 September 1782 – died 26 August 1849) was a French composer, conductor, violinist, and pedagogue.

Jacques Emmanuel (310 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques Emmanuel, real name Jacques Emmanuel Welfling, (13 January 1920 in Paris – 11 June 1998 in Saint-Cloud aged 78) was a French actor, screenwriter

Mécène Marié de l'Isle (404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Auguste Mathieu Panseron (204 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Auguste Mathieu Panseron (26 April 1796 – 29 July 1859) was a French composer and voice teacher. Born in Paris, Panseron studied in Vienna with Antonio

Irénée Berge (713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Irénée Bergé (February 1, 1867 – July 30, 1926) was a French composer, conductor and instructor who lived in the United States. In spite of confusions

Georges Pfeiffer (768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Georges Jean Pfeiffer (12 December 1835 – 14 February 1908) was a French composer, pianist, and music critic. He was a much sought-after chamber music

David Alagna (97 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

David Alagna (born in Paris, 1975) is a French stage director and composer. As a composer he is best known for his opera Le Dernier jour d'un condamné

Jean-Pierre Solié (4,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera singer

Louis Vuillemin (539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Vuillemin (19 December 1879 – 2 April 1929) was a French composer and music critic who strongly identified with his Breton heritage in his music

Henri Larrivée (754 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Larrivée (9 January 1737 – 7 August 1802) was a French opera singer. He was born in Lyon. His voice range was basse-taille (equivalent to baritone)

Henri Martelli (351 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Martelli (25 February 1895 – 15 July 1980) was a 20th-century French composer. Born in Santa Fe, Argentina and raised in Bastia, Martelli was student

Joseph François Salomon (89 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Joseph François Salomon (April 1649 – 5 March 1732) was a French composer of the Baroque era. Born in Toulon, he learnt to play the bass viol and the harpsichord

Stanislas Nordey (1,086 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Stanislas Nordey (born 1966) is a French actor and theatre director. He is the son of actress Véronique Nordey and film director Jean-Pierre Mocky. Nordey

Paul de Choudens (181 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul (de) Choudens, also known under the pseudonym Paul Bérel (5 June 1850 – 7 October 1925), was a French musician, music publisher, poet and librettist

Ferdinand Poise (605 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Alexandre Ferdinand Poise (3 June 1828 – 13 May 1892) was a French composer, mainly of opéra-comiques, for which he also frequently wrote the librettos

Muvico Theaters (810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

decorative themes at several theaters, such as the Egyptian, 1950s drive-in, French opera house, Mediterranean palace, and 1920s grand movie palace themes. Muvico

Mlle Le Sénéchal de Kerkado (98 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Le Sénéchal de Kerkado (c. 1786 – c. 1805) was a French composer. She had her first opera performed at the age of nineteen; La méprise volontaire ou La

François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet (78 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

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

Alexandre Lapissida (193 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alexandre Lapissida (9 March 1839, Volkrange - 16 February 1907, Paris) was a French operatic tenor, producer, director and theatre manager. First singing

Jean-Pierre Grenier (1,507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Pierre Grenier (20 November 1914 – 20 February 2000) was a French actor, theatre director and screenwriter. In 1946, Jean-Pierre Grenier, in association

Armand d'Artois (2,777 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Armand d'Artois (3 October 1788 – 28 March 1867) was a 19th-century French playwright and librettist, and also Achille d'Artois's brother. Trained for

Max Bouvet (396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Louis Joseph Saint-Amans (455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis Joseph Saint-Amans (26 June 1749, Marseille - 29 July 1844, Paris) was a French composer. Louis Joseph Saint-Amans was born on 26 June 1749 in Marseille

Jean-Claude Trial (178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Claude Trial (13 December 1732 - 23 June 1771) was a French composer and, with Pierre Montan Berton, co-director of the Académie Royale de Musique

Jacques Charpentier (568 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques Charpentier (18 October 1933 in Paris, France – 15 June 2017 in Lézignan-Corbières, France) was a French composer and organist. He is unrelated

Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol (288 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jules-Édouard Alboize de Pujol (1805, Montpellier – 9 April 1854, Paris) was a French historian and playwright. Director of the Théâtre de l'Atelier in

Auguste Creuzé de Lesser (685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Baron Auguste Creuzé de Lesser (3 October 1771 – 14 August 1839) was a French poet, playwright, librettist and politician. 1790: Satires de Juvenal, traduction

Leclercq (221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

racer Jean-Marc Leclercq, French singer Jeanne Leclercq (1868–1914), French opera singer Julien Leclercq (disambiguation), several people Michel Leclercq

Emma Vecla (340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Emma Vecla (most widely used stage name), birth name Ernestine Louise Telmat, alternate stage name Adrienne Telma, (1877–1972) was a French operatic soprano

Claude Pascal (730 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Claude Pascal (Paris, February 19, 1921 – Paris, February 28, 2017) was a French composer. After studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, he obtained the

Georges Marty (508 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Georges-Eugène Marty (Paris, 16 May 1860 – Paris, 11 October 1908) was a French conductor and composer associated with both major opera houses in Paris

Félix Fourdrain (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Félix Fourdrain (3 February 1880 - 23 October 1923) was a French organist and composer. He is chiefly known for his operas. Many of them were written in

Arnold Mortier (144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Arnold Mortier (1843 – 2 January 1885) was a 19th-century French journalist, playwright, and librettist. Arnold Mortier was responsible for the drama column

Jacques Rouché (1,190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques Louis Eugène Rouché (16 November 1862, Lunel - 9 November 1957, Paris) was a French art and music patron. He was the owner of the journal La Grande

Salammbô (Reyer) (485 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

and Amable and Eugène Gardy (Act IV). The American premiere was at the French Opera House in New Orleans on 25 January 1900 with Lina Pacary in the title

Jeanne Hatto (257 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Contralto (1,290 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

has it that it was the first major bas-dessus (contralto) role in the French opera history (Sadie, Julie Anne (1997). "Maupin". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.)

Félix Fourdrain (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Félix Fourdrain (3 February 1880 - 23 October 1923) was a French organist and composer. He is chiefly known for his operas. Many of them were written in

Jules Brésil (329 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jules-Henri Brésil (8 May 1818 – 22 October 1899) was a French writer who collaborated with Adolphe d'Ennery on the librettos of at least two operas. Brésil

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and Amable and Eugène Gardy (Act IV). The American premiere was at the French Opera House in New Orleans on 25 January 1900 with Lina Pacary in the title

Nikita Storojev (461 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Nikita Leonidovich Storozhev (Russian: Никита Леонидович Сторожев; 1950 – 17 April 2023) was a Russian-American bass opera singer. Storojev was born in

Sewrin (1,690 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Sewrin, real name Charles-Augustin Bassompierre, (9 October 1771 – 22 April 1853) was a French playwright and goguettier. In addition to his writing of

Jacques Rouché (1,190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques Louis Eugène Rouché (16 November 1862, Lunel - 9 November 1957, Paris) was a French art and music patron. He was the owner of the journal La Grande

Francis Chassaigne (1,079 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Francis Chassaigne (also known as Francisque Chassaigne) (30 October 1847 – 21 December 1922) was a Belgian-born French composer of operettas, songs, and

Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard (258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard (1 February 1789 – 12 February 1861) was a French composer, violist, and conductor of the Classical era. He was born

Charles Silver (217 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Silver (16 April 1868 – 10 October 1949) was a French composer. Born in Paris, Silver studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Théodore Dubois

Léon Vasseur (818 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Félix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, known as Léon Vasseur (28 May 1844 – 25 May 1917), was a French composer, organist and conductor. While working as a cathedral

Marie Thérèse (661 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(born 1938), Luxembourgian politician Marie-Thérèse Gauley (1903–1992), French opera singer Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699–1777), French hostess Marie-Thérèse

Christophe Looten (707 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Christophe Looten (born 5 April 1958) is a French composer. Born in Bergues, he was made Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in January 2000. Looten has

Adolphe Danhauser (294 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adolphe-Léopold Danhauser (26 February 1835 – 9 June 1896) was a French musician, educator, music theorist and composer. Adolphe Danhauser was born in

Auguste Pilati (755 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Auguste Pilati (actual name "Auguste Pilate") (29 September 1810 – 1 August 1877) was a prolific French composer, opera conductor and occasional singer

Pierre-Charles Roy (429 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre-Charles Roy (1683 — 23 October 1764) was a French poet and man of letters, noted for his collaborations with the composers François Francoeur and

Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis (362 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis (4 July 1769 – 20 December 1819) was a French violinist, conductor, choirmaster, teacher, composer, and theatre director.

Helene Guerin (85 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera composer

Éric Vigner (1,669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Éric Vigner (born October 27, 1960, in Rennes, France) is a French stage director, actor and scenic designer. He directed the CDDB-Théâtre de Lorient,

Ferdinand Lemaire (142 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Ferdinand Lemaire (1832–1879) was a French librettist and poet, best known for writing the libretto of Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila. Lemaire

Aristide Hignard (386 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (20 May 1822 – 20 March 1898) was a French composer of light opera notable as a friend of Jules Verne, also from Nantes and

Jean Elleviou (802 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

French opera singer

Jean Gabriel-Marie (518 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean Gabriel Prosper Marie (8 January 1852 – 29 August 1928) was a French romantic composer and conductor. Gabriel-Marie was born in Paris, France on 8

Péniche Opéra (258 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

La Péniche Opéra is a small French opera company which performs on a barge. When performing in Paris, the barge is moored opposite of No.46, quai de Loire

Jean Vieuille (301 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Charles-Louis Mion (128 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles-Louis Mion (17 December 1699 – 12 September 1775) was a French composer of the Baroque era. He was the grand-nephew of Michel Richard Delalande

Karine Deshayes (537 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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Tolia Nikiprowetzky (207 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Tolia Nikiprowetzky (12 or 25 September 1916 – 5 May 1997) was a French composer and musicologist of Russian birth. His compositions include four operas

Philippe Capdenat (1,374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014. Official website (in French) L' oeuvre de Philippe Capdenat (in French) Opéra Éclaté (in French)

Bollhuset (3,019 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bollhuset, also called Stora Bollhuset (The Big Ball House), Bollhusteatern (Ball House Theater), and Gamla Bollhuset (Old Ball House) at various times

Eugène Prévost (musician) (651 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Eugène-Prosper Prévost (23 April 1809 – 19 August 1872) was a French composer and conductor. Born in Paris, Prévost was introduced to music by his older

Cléon Galoppe d'Onquaire (450 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Jean Hyacinthe Adonis (or Antoine) Galoppe d'Onquaire (16 April 1805 – 9 January 1867) was a French writer and playwright. He was born in Montdidier

Louis-Barthélémy Pradher (484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis-Barthélémy Pradher (16 December 1782 – 19 October 1843) was a French composer, pianist and music educator. Born in Paris, Pradher was the son of

Pierre Véron (writer) (377 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Pierre Véron (19 April 1831, Paris - 3 November 1900, Paris) was a French writer, journalist, and librettist. In 1854 he published his first book, a volume

André Amellér (671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

André Amellér (2 January 1912 – 14 May 1990) was a French composer and conductor. He is considered part of the French school of 20th-century classical

Léon Gastinel (138 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Léon Gastinel (15 August 1823 – 18 October 1906) was a French composer. He attended the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Fromental Halévy and

François Jules Edmond Got (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

François Jules Edmond Got (1 October 1822, in Lignerolles, Orne – 21 March 1901, in Passy, a district in Paris) was a French stage actor, comedian, and

Charles Grandmougin (311 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles-Jean Grandmougin (17 January 1850 – 28 April 1930) was a French poet and playwright. He lived in Paris. Two of his poems appeared in the third

Édouard Monnais (703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Désiré Guillaume Édouard Monnais (27 May 1798 – 25 February 1868) was a French journalist, theater director, playwright and librettist. Édouard Monnais

Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi (437 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Théodore de Tschudi also known as Tschoudi or Tschudy (16 August 1734 – 7 March 1784) was a French botanist and poet. Born in Metz

Pedro Gailhard (382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name Pierre Samson Gailhard, (1 August 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a French opera singer and theatre director. Gifted with an exceptional singing bass

Sophie Gail (341 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Edmee Sophie Gail née Garre (28 August 1775 – 24 July 1819) was a French singer and composer. Sophie Garre was born in Paris in the parish of Saint Sulpice

Louis-Sébastien Lebrun (133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Louis-Sébastien Lebrun (10 December 1764 in Paris - 27 June 1829 idem) was a French opera singer and composer. As a tenor, he wrote the music of several operas

Henri Maréchal (352 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Henri Maréchal (22 January 1842 – 12 May 1924) was a French composer. Born in Paris, Maréchal studied music theory with Émile Chevé and Édouard Batiste

Maurice Léna (89 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Maurice Léna (24 December 1859 – 31 March 1928) was a French dramatist and librettist of the Parisian Belle Époque. His opera librettos include Jules Massenet's

Antoine Bullant (588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Antoine Bullant, also Anton Bullandt (Russian: Антон Булландт or Антуан Бюлан, 9 February 1751 in Mělník, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire – 25 [OS 13] June

Bruno Bayen (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Bruno Bayen (13 November 1950 – 6 December 2016) was a French novelist, playwright and theatre director. Bruno Bayen was born on 13 November 1950 in Paris

Pomone (opera) (755 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

libretto by Pierre Perrin. It has been described as "effectively the first French opera." It was first performed in Paris at the Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille

Pierre Wissmer (737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Pierre Wissmer (30 October 1915 – 4 November 1992) was a 20th-century French classical composer of Swiss origin. Formed at the Conservatoire de Musique

André Gailhard (121 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

André Gailhard (29 June 1885 – 3 July 1966) was a French classical music composer. André Gailhard, full name André Charles Samson Gailhard, was the son