Paul Milliet

Paul Milliet (* 1855, † 1924) was a French librettist.

Milliet was known primarily for his libretti for Jules Massenet. For him, he wrote "Werther" by Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther " and - together with Henri Gremont - the Hérodiade after Gustave Flaubert's Trois contes Hérodias from his.

For the Paris- Hungarian composer Sándor Bertha he wrote the libretto for the opera Matthias Corvin, three of his libretti were set to music by the Greek composer Spyros Samaras. He also translated the libretto for the French version of Manuel de Falla's opera La vida breve.

Milliet was married to the originating from the U.S. singer Ada Adini.

Libretti

  • Jules Massenet: Hérodiade (Henri Gremont ), opera, first performed in 1881
  • Sándor Bertha: Matthias Corvin, comic opera, UA 1883 ( hungarian: Corvin Mátyás, 1884)
  • Louis Gaston Ganne: Maître Jean, Feenspiel, UA 1884
  • Jules Massenet: Werther ( with Edouard Blau and Georges Hartmann), opera, UA 1893 ( in Vienna in German translation by Max Kalbeck 1892)
  • Spyros Samaras: Storia d' amore o La biondinetta UA 1903
  • Spyros Samaras: Mademoiselle de Belle -Isle libretto, UA 1905
  • Spyros Samaras: Rhea, UA 1908
  • Manuel de Falla: La vie brève ( translation: La vida breve ), opera, first performed in 1913
  • Camille Erlanger: Forfaiture, musical comedy, UA 1921
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  • Born in 1855
  • Died in 1924
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