Jules Barbier

Jules Barbier Paul ( born March 8, 1825 Paris, † 1901) was a French dramatist and librettist.

Jules Barbier debuted, still quite young, with the drama Un poète (1847 ) without luck. After various other pieces can succeed, he associated himself according to the custom of the French dramatist with other poets and created in conjunction with this a lot of dramas, comedies, vaudeville, of which the most famous are:

  • Les adieux derniers (1851 );
  • Graziella (1849 );
  • Jenny l' ouvrière (1850 );
  • Les marionettes du docteur (1852 );
  • La loterie du mariage ( comedy in verse, 1868);

The vaudeville:

  • L' amour mouillé (1850),
  • Voyage autour d'une jolie femme (1852 )

Later he was with his colleague Michel Carré introduced the constant librettist of the Opéra -Comique, on which stage he called the Greek genre with his piece Galathée (1852, music by Victor Massé ). The best known of his other librettos are:

  • Deucallon et Pyrrha (1855 );
  • Le roman de la rose (1854, music by Pascal );
  • Psyche (1857, music by Ambroise Thomas );
  • Dinorah ou Le Pardon de Ploërmel (1859, music by Giacomo Meyerbeer );
  • Philémon et Baucis,
  • Faust,
  • Roméo et Juliette,
  • La reine de Saba and
  • La Colombe " (all of Charles François Gounod composed );
  • Hamlet and
  • Mignon (music by Ambroise Thomas );
  • Les noces de Jeannette (music by Victor Massé );
  • La fille d' Égypte (music by Jules Berry )
  • Les Contes d' Hoffmann ( Tales of Hofmann ), music by Jacques Offenbach

A drama: Joan of Arc, with music by Gounod, in 1873 in the Théâtre de la Gaite an honorable success.

The events of 1870/71 enthusiastic barber also to lyrical effusions, under the title: published " Le Franctireur " (1871 ).

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