Jules Adenis

Jules Adenis, actually Jules de Adenis Colombeau, ( born June 28, 1823 in Paris, † 1900 ) was a French journalist, writer and librettist.

Life

Adenis successfully completed the Collège royal de Bourbon and got on it and a job at the Compagnie de Saint- Gobain. Already at that time he was contributor to various newspapers and magazines. In addition, he also tried his hand as a librettist and was here with " The Maid of Perth " (La fille de Perth jolie ) recorded one of his greatest successes.

Through his work in the theater Adenis soon made ​​acquaintance with the Société des auteurs et Compositeurs (SACD ) an early form of a collecting society, whose secretary he was late for a few years.

His two sons, Eugene (1854-1923) and Édouard (1867-1952), were also writers and achieved success ala librettist.

Works (selection)

  • Jacques Offenbach: Un postillon en gage. Opérette en un acte. Paris 1856 ( along with Edouard Plouvier ).
  • Frédéric Barbier: Madame Pygmalion. Opérette - bouffe en un acte. Paris 1863 ( with Francis Tourte ).
  • Ernest Guiraud: Sylvie. Opéra comique en un acte. Paris in 1864 (along with Jules Rostaing ).
  • Adrien Barthe: La fiancée d' Abydos. Opéra en 4 actes et 5 tableaux. Paris 1865.
  • Jules Massenet La Grand'tante. Opéra comique en un acte. Paris in 1867 (along with Charles Grandvallet ).
  • Georges Bizet: The Maid of Perth. Opera in four acts ( " La jolie fille de Perth "). Choudens Verlag, Cologne, 1880 ( together with Henri de Saint Georges, free after Walter Scott's novel ) ..
  • Joseph Poniatowski: La Conte Sina. Opéra en trois actes - seria. Paris in 1868 (along with Henri de Saint Georges ).
  • Ferdinand Poise: Les trois souhaits. Opéra comique en un acte. Paris 1873.
  • Théodore de Lajarte: Le portrait. En deux actes Opéra -Comique. Paris in 1884 (along with Paul A. Chapelle ).
  • Henry Litolff: The Knights Templar. Opera in five acts and seven scenes. Litolff, Braunschweig 1889 (along with Armand Sylvestre and Lionel Bonnemère ).
  • Edmond Missa: Juge et game. Opéra comique en deux actes. Paris 1886 ( free after Antoine Jacob Mont Fleury ).
  • Samuel David: La fée des bruyères. Opéra comique en trois actes. Barbre, Paris 1878.
  • Une nuit orageuse. Comédie en deux actes. Paris in 1852 (along with Armand d' Artois ).
  • Ne Touchez pas à la hache! Comédie- vaudeville en un acte. PAris 1854 (along with Edouard Plouvier ).
  • Ô le meilleur of pères. Vaudeville en un acte. Levy, Paris 1854 (along with Adrien Decourcelle ).
  • Philanthropy et repentir. Vaude Bettviller en un acte. Levy, Paris 1855.
  • Too good! Comedy in one act. Reclam, Leipzig 1885 (along with Edouard Plouvier ).
  • La crise de ménage. Comédie en un acte. Levy, Paris 1857 ( along with Edouard Plouvier ).
  • Feu le capitaine Octave. Comédie en un acte. Levy, Paris 1859 ( along with Edouard Plouvier ).
  • Si le Pontoise savait! Comédie- en un acte ävaudeville. Levy, Paris 1860 ( with Paul A. Chapelle ).
  • Une bonne pour tout faire. Vaudeville en un acte. Levy, Paris 1860 ( along with Jules Rostaing ).
  • Toute seule. Comédie en un acte. Levy, Paris 1860 ( along with Edouard Plouvier ).
  • La Czarine. Drame en cinq actes et huit tableaux. Levy, Paris 1868.
  • L' officier de fortune. Drame en cinq actes et dix tableaux. Levy, Paris 1874 ( along with Jules Rostaing ).
  • L' abîme de Trayas. Drame en cinq actes et six tableaux. Levy, Paris 1879 (along with Jules Rostaing ).
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