Édouard Blau

Édouard Blau (actually Stanislas Viateur, * May 30, 1836 in Blois, † January 8, 1906 in Paris) was a French writer and librettist.

Blue came in 1856 to Paris, where he found employment with the Bureaux de l' assistence publique. There he met the librettist Louis Gallet, with whom he in 1868 took part in a competition for an opera libretto with La Coupe du Roi de Thulé for Georges Bizet. The work was set to music by Ernest Guiraud. Previously, he had already written in 1865 with his cousin Alfred Blue wrote the libretto for the operetta Le Jules Dupratos Chanteur Florentine, which was premiered in 1866 at the Théâtre des Bouffes.

With Werther ( after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's " The Sorrows of Young Werther " ) and adapted Cid (after Pierre Corneille ) Blue two works of world literature for the operatic stage. He also worked as a journalist for the Revue et Gazette of the théâtre, Grinoire and Diogène, as a poet and playwright and wrote the novel Médium (1869).

Libretti

  • Jules Duprato: Le Chanteur Florentine, operetta, ( with Alfred construction), UA 1866
  • Ernest Guiraud / Georges Bizet: La Coupe du roi de Thulé, opera, ( with Louis Gallet ), UA 1868 an edited version of Bizet's composition in 1955
  • Georges Bizet: Don Rodrigue, opera ( with Louis Gallet ), 1873
  • Jacques Offenbach: Belle Lurette, comic opera, completed by Leo Delibes, ( with Ernest Blum and Raoul Toché ), UA 1880
  • Victorin de Joncieres: Le Chevalier Jean, lyrical drama ( with Louis Gallet ), UA 1885
  • Jules Massenet: Le Cid, opera ( with Adolphe d' Ennery and Louis Gallet by Pierre Corneille), UA 1885
  • Edouard Lalo: Le Roi d' Ys, opera, first performed in 1888
  • Benjamin Godard: Dante, lyrical drama, UA 1890
  • Jules Massenet: Werther, opera, ( with Paul Milliet and Georges Hartmann based on Goethe ) UA 1892 in Vienna, in Paris in 1893
  • Édouard Lalo: La jacquerie, opera, completed by Arthur Coquard, ( with Simone Arnaud by Prosper Mérimée ), UA 1895
  • Victorin de Joncieres: Lancelot, lyrical drama ( with Louis Gallet ), UA 1900
  • Paul Veronge de la Nux: Zaïre, opera ( with Louise Besson )
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