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- About 1860, Meilhac met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years.
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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 · Over the span of about twenty years, Halévy and Meilhac collaborated on 14 librettos and 33 plays; their collected collaborations were published in eight volumes between 1899 and 1902. Both men were elected to the Académie Française: Halévy in 1884, and Meilhac in 1888.
Ludovic Halévy (born Jan. 1, 1834, Paris, Fr.—died May 8, 1908, Paris) 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.
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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.
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 ...
Scholars. (1834–1908). The French librettist and novelist Ludovic Halévy, in collaboration with Henri Meilhac, wrote the librettos for most of the operettas of Jacques Offenbach as well as Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen. He also wrote satiric comedies about contemporary Parisian life.
Carmen, opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet—with a libretto in French by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy—that premiered on March 3, 1875. With a plot based on the 1845 novella of the same name by Prosper Mérimée, Bizet’s Carmen was groundbreaking in its realism, and it rapidly.
