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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)
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
Sylvain Maréchal (1,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sylvain Maréchal (French: [silvɛ̃ maʁeʃal]; 15 August 1750 – 18 January 1803) was a French essayist, poet, philosopher and political theorist, whose views
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
Étienne Méhul (2,499 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Mathé Altéry (187 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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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.
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
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
Amin Maalouf (1,061 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Amin Maalouf (French: [maluf]; Arabic: أمين رشدي بطرس طنّوص معلوف Arabic pronunciation: [maʕˈluːf]; born 25 February 1949) is a Lebanese-born French author
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
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
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
Hector Berlioz (13,137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to the musical press: a letter to the journal Le Corsaire defending French opera against the incursions of its Italian rival. He contended that all Rossini's
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
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
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
Jacques Ibert (1,853 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
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
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
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
Jacques Ibert (1,853 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
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.
Colette (3,985 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
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
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
Catulle Mendès (1,010 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
Daniel Auber (3,302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French opera composer
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lakmé Cosmetics (465 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sacha Guitry (2,751 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Henri Caïn (226 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Henri Cain (11 October 1857 – 21 November 1937) was a French dramatist, opera and ballet librettist. He wrote over forty librettos from 1893 to his death
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
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
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
Jean-Michel Damase (674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jean-Michel Damase (27 January 1928 – 21 April 2013) was a French pianist, conductor and composer of classical music. Damase was born in Bordeaux, the
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)
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
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
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
Léon Carvalho (483 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
London, 1981. Dean W. Bizet. London, J M Dent & Sons, 1978. Huebner S. French Opera at the Fin de Siecle. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999. Le guide
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
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
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
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
Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie (528 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
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
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
Véronique Gens (520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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Jules Massenet (7,995 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
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
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
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (826 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny ((1729-10-17)17 October 1729 – (1817-01-14)14 January 1817) was a French composer and a member of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts
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
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
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
Dominique Visse (351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Nicolas Levasseur (294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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Antoine Danchet (197 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
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
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
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
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
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
Martial Singher (289 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
Charles-Simon Catel (459 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Charles-Simon Catel (10 June 1773 – 29 November 1830) was a French composer and educator born at L'Aigle, Orne. Catel studied at the Royal School of Singing
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
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
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
Sophie Arnould (359 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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Charles Gounod (9,428 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Françoise Rosay (983 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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,
Étienne Lainez (145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
Max d'Ollone (1,065 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
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
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)
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
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
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
Victorin de Joncières (489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Félix-Ludger Rossignol (12 April 1839 – 26 October 1903), known as Victorin de Joncières, was a French composer and music critic. Son of a political writer
Augusta Holmès (1,406 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (16 December 1847 – 28 January 1903) was a French composer of Irish descent. In 1871, Holmès became a French national and added
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
Victorin de Joncières (489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Félix-Ludger Rossignol (12 April 1839 – 26 October 1903), known as Victorin de Joncières, was a French composer and music critic. Son of a political writer
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
François Francoeur (1,175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
François Francœur (21 September 1698 – 5 August 1787) was a French composer and violinist from the late Baroque era and the Classical era. François Francœur
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (composer) (567 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
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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Claude Debussy (12,023 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Louis Musy (273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French opera singer
Victor Hugo (10,309 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 author, poet, essayist, playwright,
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-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
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
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,
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
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
Guillemette Laurens (244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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Nestor Roqueplan (1,250 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Louis-Victor-Nestor Roqueplan [also sometimes spelled Rocoplan] (16 September 1805 – 24 April 1870) was a French writer, journalist, and theatre director
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
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
Lucien Muratore (375 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
Arthur Honegger (9,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Arthur Honegger (French: [aʁtyʁ ɔnɛɡɛʁ]; 10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived a large part of his life
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Angers-Nantes Opéra (101 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French opera company
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Antoine Trial (283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 (1916–1995)
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Henri Cohen (composer) (427 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
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
Camille Maurane (334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
Emmanuel Bondeville (531 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Emmanuel Bondeville was a French composer and music administrator, born 29 October 1898 in Rouen, and died 26 November 1987 in Paris. He was a member of
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
Zelia Trebelli-Bettini (247 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
Henri Cohen (composer) (427 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
Paul Gay (206 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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
Auguste Mermet (472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Auguste Mermet (5 January 1810 – 4 July 1889) was a French opera composer. Born in Brussels, Mermet was the son of an officer in the Grande Armée and originally
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
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
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
Francis Poulenc (11,326 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
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.
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
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
Albert Millaud (525 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Albert Millaud was a French journalist, writer and stage author (Paris, 13 January 1844 – Paris, 23 October 1892). He was the son of the banker Moïse Millaud
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
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
Catherine Dubosc (102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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Reynaldo Hahn (6,952 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
Blanche Deschamps-Jéhin (332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alexandre Tansman (5,569 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
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1,210 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
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
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
Charles-Édouard Lefebvre (390 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
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
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
Georges Thill (499 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
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
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
Paul Lhérie (438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
Martha Angelici (313 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
2003 Cannes Film Festival (1,637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The 56th Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2003. French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor and producer Patrice Chéreau was the
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
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
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
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
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
Frédégonde (585 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Frédégonde is an 1895 French opera (drame lyrique) in five acts with music by Ernest Guiraud, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Paul Dukas and a libretto by Louis
Frédégonde (585 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Frédégonde is an 1895 French opera (drame lyrique) in five acts with music by Ernest Guiraud, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Paul Dukas and a libretto by Louis
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
Charles-Hubert Gervais (444 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
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
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
Charles Hardouin (136 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
Jean-Philippe Lafont (274 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
André Wormser (286 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
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
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
Anna de La Grange (164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
Léonce (actor) (513 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
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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
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)
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
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
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
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.
Grand opera (3,048 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
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
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
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
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
Léon Battu (539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
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
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
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
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
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
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
François Beaumavielle (116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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"
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
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
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
François Beaumavielle (116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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
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
Paul Foucher (1,447 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Paul-Henri Foucher (21 April 1810 – 24 January 1875) was a French playwright, theatre and music critic, political journalist, and novelist. Foucher was
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
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
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
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
Marie-Louise Desmatins (209 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
Jacques Offenbach (12,774 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
Padmâvatî (333 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
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
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
Stéphane Braunschweig (328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
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
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
Opéra bouffe (111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French opera genre
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
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
Louis-Armand Chardin (482 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French opera singer
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
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
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
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
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
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
Edmond Vergnet (307 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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Thésée (Lully) (852 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view 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
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
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)
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
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
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
Arturo Rodas (695 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Arturo Rodas (born 3 March 1954, in Quito) is an Ecuadorian-born French-citizen composer. Rodas studied at the National Conservatory in Quito, took private
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
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
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
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
Françoise Journet (233 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
Arturo Rodas (695 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Arturo Rodas (born 3 March 1954, in Quito) is an Ecuadorian-born French-citizen composer. Rodas studied at the National Conservatory in Quito, took private
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
Gaëlle Méchaly (812 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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
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
Xavier Depraz (785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
né Xavier Marcel Delaruelle (22 April 1926 – 18 October 1994) was a French opera singer and actor. Born in Albert (Somme), Depraz was a bass at the Paris
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
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
Jean-Pierre Solié (4,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French opera singer
René de Galard de Béarn, marquis de Brassac (83 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
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
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
Clairval (292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French opera singer
Mécène Marié de l'Isle (404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
Louis Payen (119 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Albert Liénard, known as Louis Payen (1875 – 1927) was a French librettist. He was secretary general of the Comédie-Française. He wrote several librettos
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
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
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
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
Jean-Pierre Grenier (1,508 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Elizabeth Vidal (122 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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
Hippolyte Bis (266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis (29 August 1789 – 3 March 1855), was an early 19th-century French playwright and librettist. He is mostly known for the libretto
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
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)
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
Jeanne-Charlotte Schroeder (121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
as Madame Saint-Aubin, (9 December 1764 – 11 September 1850), was a French opera singer who sang leading soprano roles with the Comédie-Italienne and
Jean-Alexandre Talazac (255 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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
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
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
Ernest Blanc (384 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ernest Blanc (November 1, 1923 – December 22, 2010) was a French opera singer, one of the leading baritones of his era in France. Born in Sanary-sur-Mer
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
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
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
Pierre-Louis Moline (674 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pierre-Louis Moline (c. 1740 – 20 March 1820) was a prolific French dramatist, poet and librettist. His play La Réunion du six août was one of the longest-running
Max Bouvet (396 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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.
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
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
Hippolyte Bis (266 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis (29 August 1789 – 3 March 1855), was an early 19th-century French playwright and librettist. He is mostly known for the libretto
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
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
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
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
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
Antony Choudens (317 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Antony Choudens (11 February 1849 – 15 July 1902) was a French music publisher and occasional composer. Choudens was born in Paris. He succeeded his father
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.)
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
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
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
Jeanne Hatto (257 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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
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)
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
Alfred Bachelet (218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Alfred Bachelet (26 February 1864 – 10 February 1944) was a French composer, conductor and teacher. Born in Paris, Bachelet studied at the Conservatoire
Marie Thérèse (671 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
Andrée Esposito (312 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Andrée Esposito (born 7 February 1934) is a French opera singer, a lyric soprano particularly associated with the French repertory and contemporary works
Marc Delmas (431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Marc Marie Jean Baptiste Delmas (28 March 1885 – 30 November 1931) was a French expressionist composer and writer. Marc Delmas was born in Saint-Quentin
Ambronay Festival (501 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The Ambronay Festival is a French opera festival and early music festival. The festival has been running in October for 30 years and previously produced
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
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
Ernest Bourget (592 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ernest Alexandre Joseph Bourget (10 March 1814 – 2 October 1864 in Thomery (Seine-et-Oise aged 50 ) was a 19th-century French playwright, lyricist and
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
Leclercq (223 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
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
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
Jules Noriac (344 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jules Noriac, real name Claude, Antoine, Jules Cairon, (24 April 1827 – 1 October 1882), was a French journalist, playwright, writer, librettist and theatre
Charles-Henri Plantade (1,343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Charles-Henri Plantade (14 October 1764 – 18 December 1839) was a French classical composer and singing professor. His compositions included several operas
Étienne Morel de Chédeville (99 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Étienne Morel de Chédeville (10 October 1751 in Paris - 13 July 1814 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges) was an 18th-century French playwright and librettist
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
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.
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
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
Jean Vieuille (301 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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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,
Alexandrine Marie Agathe Gavaudan-Ducamel (1,067 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Marie Agathe Gavaudan-Ducamel (15 September 1781 – 24 June 1850) was a French opera singer who sang leading soprano roles at the Opéra Comique for over 20
Helene Guerin (85 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
French opera composer
Aubert Lemeland (190 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Aubert Lemeland (19 December 1932 – 15 November 2010) was a French composer. Born in La Haye-du-Puits, after his studies in piano and cello classes in
Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (443 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Marie-Emmanuelle Bayon Louis (6 June 1745, Marcei – 29 March 1825, Aubevoye) was a French composer, pianist, and salonnière. Contemporaries credited Mlle