Briséïs or Les amants de Corinthe is an operatic drame lyrique by Emmanuel Chabrier with libretto by Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël after Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth.
Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked as a civil servant un
Chabrier's birthplace in Ambert
Chabrier by Édouard Detaille (1873)
Chabrier, 1880, by Manet, Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark