Émile de Najac

Émile de Najac ( born December 14, 1828 in Lorient, † April 11, 1889 in Paris) was a French librettist.

De Najac was one of the major French librettist for the French comic opera in the mid-19th century, where he frequently collaborated with other librettists. So he wrote with Victorien Sardou the text to Pierre -Louis Deffes ' Les Noces de Fernande, with Henri Bocage the text to Estelle et Némourin (1882 ) and Raoul Toché the text to Le premier baiser (1883 ), both set to music by Émile Jonas.

1885 was created in collaboration with Paul Ferrier wrote the libretto for Alexandre Charles Lecocqs La vie mondaine, 1887 in collaboration with Paul Burani Emmanuel Chabrier wrote the libretto for Le roi malgré lui. In addition, de Najac also wrote libretti with Eugène Scribe, Edmond François Valentin About and Albert Millaud.

The piece Divorçons, the de Najac 1880 authored with Sardou, is played to the present day and has been filmed several times, including 1915 as a silent film and 1941 by Ernst Lubitsch under the title marriage comedy ( That Uncertain Feeling).

• Author
• Literature (19th century)
• Literature ( French)
• Libretto
• Frenchman
• Born in 1828
• Died in 1889
• Man