Jules Barbier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jules Barbier

French writer

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1825

Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1901

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, choreographer, librettist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Jules Barbier

  • Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel CarrĂ©.
  • He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters.His libretti for extant operas (those co-written with CarrĂ© are shown with an asterisk) include: Charles Gounod: La Colombe, Faust (*), Le mĂ©decin malgrĂ© lui (*), PhilĂ©mon et Baucis, Polyeucte, La reine de Saba and RomĂ©o et Juliette (*) Victor MassĂ©: GalathĂ©e Les Saisons (*) Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le pardon de PloĂ«rmel (later revised as Dinorah) Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann Camille Saint-SaĂ«ns: 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 LĂ©o 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.

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