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Jean-Nicolas-Gustave Van Nieuwen-Huysen, dit Gustave Vaëz [1] ou Vaes [2], né le 6 décembre 1812 à Bruxelles et mort le 12 mars 1862 à Paris (9 e) [3], est un librettiste et traducteur de livrets d’opéra belge.
Jean-Nicolas-Gustave Van Nieuwen-Huysen (known as Gustave Vaëz) (6 December 1812 – 12 March 1862) was a Belgian playwright, librettist and translator of opera librettos. Born in Brussels, he studied law and earned a doctorate at the State University of Leuven. [1]
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Early years and first success
Alphonse Royer was born in Paris to a prosperous family with various commercial interests. His father was a commissaire-priseur (auctioneer) and lawyer. As a young man, Royer belonged to a literary circle inspired by Romanticism and Liberalism, movements for which he maintained a sympathy throughout his life. He initially trained to be a lawyer, but was more interested in poetry and the theatre and longed to travel. His father sent him abroad where for several years he travelled in Italy and...
Librettist and playwright
In the ensuing years, Royer wrote several more novels and plays, contributed articles to a variety of Parisian periodicals, and formed a close friendship and working partnership with the Belgian playwright and poet, Gustave Vaëz. Their first major collaboration was the translation and adaptation of Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor for the French stage. The successful premiere of Lucie de Lammermoor, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in 1839 led to several similar commissions, as well as...
Theatre manager
Royer had been spoken of as a possible successor to Vedel, the director of Théâtre-Français, who resigned his post in 1840. In suggesting him for the directorship, La Pressewrote: In the end, Vedel was succeeded by François Buloz. However, in 1853 Royer was appointed director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon, where several of his plays had premiered in the 1840s. Vaëz joined him at the Odéon as a stage and artistic director and then went with him to the Paris Opéra in 1856 when Royer became the dire...
In addition to the works listed here, Royer was a regular contributor of articles, literary and music criticism, and serialized fiction (romans feuilleton) to several French periodicals, including L'Europe littéraire, Revue de Paris, Le Figaro, Le Ménestrel, Revue des Deux Mondes, and L'Artiste.
Ashbrook, William, Donizetti and His Operas, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 591–592. ISBN 0-521-27663-2Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Alphonse Royer". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).Claveau, Anatole "Chronique littéraire", Revue contemporaine, 1867 (in French)Douhair, P. "Revue Critique", Le Correspondant, Volume 64, 1865 (in French)Media related to Alphonse Royerat Wikimedia CommonsAlphonse Royer on Data.bnf.frWorks by or about Alphonse Royer at Internet Archive- 10 September 1803, Paris, France
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- 11 April 1875 (aged 71), Paris, France
Gustave Vaëz (pseudonimo di Jean-Nicolas-Gustave Van Nieuwen-Huysen; Bruxelles, 6 dicembre 1812 – Parigi, 12 marzo 1862) è stato un librettista, drammaturgo e traduttore belga .
Deux Hommes et une femme (Two Men and a Woman), also known as Rita, is an opéra comique in one act, composed by Gaetano Donizetti to a French libretto by Gustave Vaëz. The opera, a domestic comedy consisting of eight musical numbers connected by spoken dialogue, was completed in 1841.
- French
- Gustave Vaëz
- Deux Hommes et une femme
- 7 May 1860, Opéra-Comique, Paris
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Vaëz, Gustave Type: Person Gender: Male Born: 1812-12-06 Born in: Brussels, Belgium Died: 1862-03-12 (aged 49)Died in: Paris, Île-de-France, France Area: Belgium ISNI code: 0000 0001 2122 6867 Rating
