Henri Meilhac
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Henri Meilhac was a prolific French playwright and opera librettist, known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on comic operas with music by Jacques Offenbach. He also wrote occasionally for se
Meilhac by Jules-Élie Delaunay, c. 1880
Sketch of first performance of La belle Hélène
Poster for the première of Carmen
Carmen
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Carmen 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. The opera
Henri Meilhac
…collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on comic operas with music by Jacques Offenbach. He also wrote occasionally for serious works including Georges Bizet's Carmen (with Halévy) and Jules Massenet's Manon. Born in Paris, Meilhac began writing for a humorous magazine in 1852, and four years later he began a career…
Célestine Galli-Marié as Carmen
Lithograph of act 1 in the premiere performance, by Pierre-Auguste Lamy, 1875
Magdalena Kožená and Jonas Kaufmann at the Salzburg Festival 2012