Edmond Gondinet

Pierre Edmond Julien Gondinet ( born March 7, 1828 in Laurière, Haute- Vienne, † November 19, 1888 in Neuilly -sur -Seine, Hauts -de -Seine département ) was a French dramatist and librettist.

Life and work

Gondinet devoted himself initially to the administrators, but went after he won at the Théâtre -Français and the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell with the comedies Trop curieux (1863 ), Les Victimes de l' argent (1865) and Les Révoltées (1867 ) made ​​significant progress had quite a stage seal over.

Edmond Gondinet died on November 19, 1888 in Neuilly -sur -Seine and found his final resting place there on the " Cimetière vieux ".

Rezepzion

Gondinets plays were - more or less - all successful; but never survived a theater season. His focus was in the comedic, sometimes in satire. Seine, the patriotism owed ​​, dramas (including " Libres " ) fell through at the official criticism.

He worked among others Eugène Labiche and closely with Alphonse Daudet together, such as Le plus heureux des trois ( Labiche ), L' alouette with Albert Wolff ( 1881), among others, also the librettos to the operas by Léo Delibes Le roi l'a dit and Lakmé.

Works (selection)

  • La Cravate blanche.Paris 1867.
  • Comte Jacques. Paris 1868.
  • Les grandes demoiselles. Paris 1868.
  • Gauvaud, Minard et Cie. Paris 1869.
  • Fin courant. Paris 1870 ( together with Albert Wolff)
  • Christiane. Paris, 1871.
  • Panazol. Paris 1872.
  • Libres! . Paris 1873
  • Le homard. Paris 1874.
  • Gilberte. Paris 1874 ( along with Raymond Deslandes ).
  • Le panache. Paris 1875.
  • Le professeur pour dames. Paris 1877.
  • Les convictions de Papa. Paris 1877.
  • Le Club. Comedie en trois actes. Paris in 1877 (along with Félix Cohen ) German translation: The Club. Comedy in three acts. Reclam, Leipzig 1885.
  • German Translation: A pleasure trip. Comedy in three acts. Eirich, Vienna 1881.
  • German translation: absent. Comedy in three acts. Reclam, Leipzig 1893.
  • Léo Delibes: Le roi l'a dit. Paris 1873. German translation: the king hath said. Comic opera in three acts. Theaterverlag Bloch, Berlin, 1874.
  • German translation: Jean de Nivelle. Opera in three acts. Publisher Fuerstner, Berlin, 1881.
  • German translation: Lakme. Opera in three acts. Publisher Fuerstner, Berlin 1884.
  • Raoul Pugno: Viviane. Paris 1886. German translation: Viviana. Great romantic ballet with choirs in five acts and nine images. Dreyer, Berlin, 1886.
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