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Jun 23, 1996 · A particular place was alloted to Degas, justified by his long friendship with Ludovic and Louise Halévy, which the Dreyfus affair failed to disrupt completely, and the lifetime interest Daniel Halevy had for the painter.
- June 23, 1996
- March 26, 1996
La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein) is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), in three acts and four tableaux by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
Ludovic Halévy was a French librettist and novelist who, in collaboration with Henri Meilhac, wrote the librettos for most of the operettas of Jacques Offenbach and who also wrote satiric comedies about contemporary Parisian life. The son of the writer Léon Halévy and the nephew of the operatic.
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Opéra-bouffe in five acts by Jacques Offenbach. Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy (1866). Synopsis Act One. The Gare de l’Ouest in Paris. Raoul de Gardefeu and Bobinet, two young Parisian dandies, discover that they have both been two-timed by the demi-mondaine Métella; tired of cocottes, they decide to go back to courting ...
Sep 26, 2016 · The young Ludovic, thanks to his family background, and despite his poor academic performance, found employment in the French Civil Service. His heart, though, was in his writing. In 1855 he had his first success with Ba-ta-clan, a one-act “Chinese Musical,” with music by Jacques Offenbach.
In the 1870s Edgar Degas produced a series of monotypes that illustrated stories by Ludovic Halévy known under the generic title of La Famille Cardinal.1 The author’s lively accounts of backstage intrigue at the Paris Opera suited Degas’s interests of the period and can be read as a cynical, but light-hearted complement to the depictions of repe...
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Ludovic Halevy was a French librettist who was well-known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac. Some of their librettos are firm favorites in the operatic canon, including Massenet's Manon, Offenbach's La belle Helene, and perhaps the most famous opera of all time: Bizet's Carmen.
