Jules Barbier
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{{Short description|French poet, writer and librettist (1825–1901)}}
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|birth_place = Paris, France
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|death_place = Paris, France
|occupation = Composer
|employer = Conservatoire de Paris
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Paul Jules Barbier ({{IPA|fr|pɔl ʒyl baʁbje}}; 8 March 1825{{spaced ndash}}16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré.[http://www.baltimoreopera.com/education/studyguide/rj_04.asp Baltimore Opera Study Guide – Roméo et Juliette] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211191938/http://www.baltimoreopera.com/education/studyguide/rj_04.asp |date=11 December 2007 }}
Works
His libretti for extant operas (those co-written with Carré are shown with an asterisk) include:
- Charles Gounod:
- La Colombe, Faust (*), Le médecin malgré lui (*), Philémon et Baucis, Polyeucte, La reine de Saba and Roméo et Juliette (*)
- Victor Massé:
- Galathée
- Les Saisons (*)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer:
- Le pardon de Ploërmel (later revised as Dinorah)
- Jacques Offenbach:
- The Tales of Hoffmann
- Camille Saint-Saëns:
- Le timbre d'argent
- Ambroise Thomas:
- Hamlet (*), Mignon (*) and Françoise de Rimini (*).
He also wrote the libretto for La Guzla de l'Émir, a one-act comic opera by Georges Bizet. This was never performed and probably destroyed.
He wrote the scenario for Léo Delibes' ballet Sylvia. Charles Gounod wrote incidental music to Barbier's play Jeanne d'Arc, and the libretto to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans was partially based on it.
See also
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References
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External links
- [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/3968 Polyeucte : opéra in quatre actes / paroles de Jules Barbier et Michel Carré; partition, piano et chant réduite par H. Salomon, opera vocal scores with piano] from the Sibley Music Library Digital Score Collection
- [http://hdl.handle.net/1802/1082 Reine de Saba. Inspirez-moi, race divine. Vocal score. English & French] from the Sibley Music Library Digital Score Collection
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Category:19th-century French dramatists and playwrights
Category:19th-century French poets
Category:French ballet librettists
Category:French opera librettists
Category:Officers of the Legion of Honour
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