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Henri Meilhac (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's Manon.
Henri Meilhac [N 1], né le 23 février 1830 dans l'ancien 4 e arrondissement de Paris et mort le 6 juillet 1897 dans le 8 e arrondissement de Paris, est un auteur dramatique, librettiste d'opérettes et d'opéras français.
Across a career spanning some three and a half decades, the French playwright and librettist Henri Meilhac perfected a style of comic writing that merged biting satire, nimble parody, and good, old-fashioned fun.
Henri Meilhac was born in Paris in 1831. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront. About 1860, he met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years.
Sep 26, 2016 · henri meilhac (1831 – 1897) It’s almost impossible to separate these two authors who were collaborators on plays and librettos for over twenty years. Grove’s Dictionary of Opera did, and Meilhac was awarded a mere paragraph!
Carmen, opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet—with a libretto in French by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy—that premiered on March 3, 1875. With a plot based on the 1845 novella of the same name by Prosper Mérimée, Bizet’s Carmen was groundbreaking in its realism, and it rapidly.
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Overview. Henri Meilhac. (1831—1897) Quick Reference. (1831–97) and. (1834–1908) A prolific partnership of Parisian playwrights under the Second Empire; during their long joint career they wrote journalism, novels, and more than 50 plays and librettos. They ... From: Meilhac, Henri in The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance »
