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| Philippe Quinault |
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Philippe Quinault (June 3, 1635 – November 26, 1688), French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.
He was educated by the liberality of Tristan L'Hermite, the author of Marianne. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne...
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| Ranieri de' Calzabigi | Person |
Ranieri de' Calzabigi (december 23 1714 - July 1795) was an Italian poet and librettist, most famous for his collaboration with the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck on his "reform" operas.
Born in Livorno, Calzabigi spent the 1750s in Paris,...
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| Jean-Nicolas Bouilly |
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Jean-Nicolas Bouilly (January 24, 1763 – April 14, 1842) was a French playwright, librettist, children's writer, and politician of the French Revolution.
Bouilly was born near Tours, and was briefly a lawyer for the parlement of Paris. At the...
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| Adolphe d'Ennery |
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Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery or Dennery (June 17, 1811 – January 25, 1899) was a French dramatist and novelist.
Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe. He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in Emile, ou le fils d...
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| Felice Romani |
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Felice Romani (January 31, 1788 — January 28, 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many libretto for the opera composer Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist between...
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| Sydney Grundy |
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Sydney Grundy (March 23 1848 – July 4 1914) was an English dramatist. Most of his works were adaptations of European plays, and many became successful enough to tour throughout the English-speaking world. He is, however, perhaps best remembered...
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| Antonio Ghislanzoni |
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Antonio Ghislanzoni (25 November 1824 – July 16 1893) was an Italian journalist, poet, and novelist who wrote librettos for Verdi, among other composers, of which the best known are Aida and the revised version of La forza del destino.
Ghislanzoni...
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| Richard Wagner |
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Film music contributor | Die Walküre |
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany - 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist and essayist, primarily known for his opera (or "music drama", as they were later called). Unlike most other...
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| Deceased Person | Götterdämmerung | |||
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| Alexander Ablesimov |
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Aleksander Onisimovich Ablesimov, (Russian: Александр Онисимович Аблесимов, born September 9 August 28 1742 Galichsky district, Kostroma; died 1783) was a Russian opera librettist, poet, dramatist, satirist and journalist.
Worked as copyist for...
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| Francesco Maria Piave |
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Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian librettist who was Verdi's life-long friend and collaborator. Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's "Cinque Giornate," when Radetsky's Austria...
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| Giovanni Francesco Busenello |
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Giovanni Francesco Busenello (b Venice, 24 Sept 1598; d Legnaro, nr Padua, 27 Oct 1659) was an Italian lawyer, librettist and poet of the 17th century.
Born to a high-class Venetian family, it is thought that he studied at the University of Padua,...
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| Catulle Mendès |
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Catulle Mendès (22 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters.
Of Jewish extraction, he was born in Bordeaux. He early established himself in Paris, attaining speedy notoriety by the publication in the Revue fantaisiste (1861)...
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| Yakov Polonsky |
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Yakov Petrovich Polonsky (Russian: Яков Петрович Полонский, 18 December, 1819 — 30 October, 1898) was a leading Pushkin poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose.
Of noble birth,...
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| Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal (February 1, 1874 – July 15, 1929), was an Austria novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
Hofmannsthal was born in Vienna, the son of an upper-class Austrian mother and an Austrian-Italian bank manager....
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| Lorenzo Da Ponte |
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Person | Don Giovanni (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra feat. conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt) |
This article is about the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. For the Bishop of the same name, see Vittorio Veneto.
Lorenzo Da Ponte, born Emanuele Conegliano (March 10 1749 – August 17 1838) to Geremia Conegliano and Ghella Pincherle. He was an Italian...
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| Mikhail Matinsky | Person |
Mikhail Alexeyevich Matinsky (Russian: Михаил Алексеевич Матинский, 1750 Pavlovskoe – c1820 St Petersburg) was a Russian scientist, dramatist, librettist and opera composer.
Matinsky originated from the serfs of Count S. P. Yaguzhinsky. He studied...
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| Chester Kallman | Person | The Rake's Progress |
Chester Simon Kallman (7 January 1921 – 18 January 1975) was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for his collaborations with W. H. Auden and Igor Stravinsky.
Kallman was born in Brooklyn. He received his B.A. at Brooklyn...
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| Francis Burnand |
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Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (November 29, 1836 – April 21, 1917), often credited as F. C. Burnand, was an editor of Punch, taking over from Tom Taylor in 1880, until 1906, when he was succeeded by Sir Owen Seaman. He was also a prolific humorist and...
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| Giuseppe Giacosa |
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Person | Madama Butterfly |
Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October, 1847 – 1 September, 1906) was an Italian poet, playwright and librettist.
He was born in Colleretto Parella, now Colleretto Giacosa, near Turin. His father was a magistrate. Giuseppe went to the University of Turin and...
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| Pope Clement IX |
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Pope Clement IX (January 28, 1600 – December 9, 1669), born Giulio Rospigliosi, was Pope from 1667 to 1669.
Born Giulio Rospigliosi to a noble family of Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, he was a pupil of the Jesuit. After receiving his doctorate...
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| François Benoît Hoffmann | Person |
François Benoît Hoffmann (July 11, 1760 – April 25, 1828) was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his opera libretto.
Hoffmann was born in Nancy, and studied law at the University of Strasbourg. However, a slight hesitation in his...
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| Cesare Sterbini | Person |
Cesare Sterbini (Rome 1784 – January 19th, 1831) was an Italian writer.
He is known for two libretti for opera by Gioacchino Rossini: Torvaldo e Dorliska (1815) and The Barber of Seville (1816).
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| Emanuel Schikaneder | Person | The Magic Flute |
Emanuel Schikaneder (Straubing, September 1, 1751 – September 21, 1812, Vienna), born Johann Joseph Schikaneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, and singer. He was the librettist of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and the builder of the...
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| Varesco | Person |
Father Varesco (1735-1805) was a chaplain, musician, poet and (most famously) librettist to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.His given name variously appears as Giambattista, Gianbattista, Giovanni Battistaand Girolamo Giovanni Battista. He is sometimes...
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| Eugène Scribe |
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Augustin Eugène Scribe (December 24, 1791 – February 20, 1861), was a French dramatist and librettist. He is best known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" (pièce bien faite). This dramatic formula was a mainstay of popular theater...
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| Michael Korie | Person |
Michael Korie (born Michael Korie Indick) is an American librettist and lyricist. Korie's works include Grey Gardens (Lyrics. Music by Scott Frankel, book by Doug Wright), Harvey Milk (opera) (Libretto. Music by Stewart Wallace) and The Grapes of...
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| B. C. Stephenson | Person |
Benjamin Charles Stephenson, or B. C. Stephenson, (1838 – January 22 1906) was a dramatist, lyricist, and librettist in Victorian England.
The nephew of General Sir Frederick Stephenson, "Charlie" Stephenson began working in government service...
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| Salvatore Cammarano |
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Salvatore Cammarano (born Naples, 19 March 1801 - died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific Italian librettist and playwright perhaps best known for writing the text of Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti.
For Donizetti he also...
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| Basil Hood |
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Basil Charles Hood (April 5 1864 – August 7 1917) was a British librettist and lyricist, perhaps best known for his libretti of a half dozen Savoy Opera and his English adaptations of operetta, including The Merry Widow.
The younger son of Sir...
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| Louis Gallet |
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Louis Gallet (1835–1898) was an inexhaustible French writer of operatic librettos, plays, romances, memoirs, pamphlets, and innumerable articles, who is remembered above all for his adaptations of fiction—and Scripture to provide libretto of cantata...
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