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Henri Meilhac (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi mɛjak]; 23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach, as well as Jules Massenet's Manon.
Sep 26, 2016 · Léon’s brother, Jacques-Fromental Halévy, is known today – if he is known at all – as the composer of La Juive, a hugely successful opera when it was first performed in 1835.
Carmen (French: [kaʁmɛn] ⓘ) is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.
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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Carmen was Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908), the nephew of composer Jacques Fromental Halévy (composer of the opera La Juive and Bizet’s father-in-law). Composer Ernest Guiraud (1837–1892), born in New Orleans, was a friend of
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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.
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About 1860, Meilhac met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years. Their most famous collaboration is the libretto for Georges Bizet's Carmen. However, Meilhac's work is most closely tied to the music of Jacques Offenbach, for whom he wrote over a dozen librettos, most of them together with Halévy.
