Dialogues of the Carmelites was an opera that had a libretto by which French composer and pianist?
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Dialogues of the Carmelites Dialogues des Carmélites ("Dialogues of the Carmelites") is a French opera in three acts, divided into twelve scenes with linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956. The composer's second opera, Poulenc wrote the libretto after the work of the same name by Georges Bernanos. The opera tells a fictionalised version of the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who, in 1794 during the closing days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation.
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Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (] ; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include "mélodies", solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite "Trois mouvements perpétuels" (1919), the ballet "Les biches" (1923), the "Concert champêtre" (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera "Dialogues des Carmélites" (1957), and the "Gloria" (1959) for soprano, choir and orchestra.
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La journée aux aventures La journée aux aventures ("The Day of Adventures") is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul. It takes the form of an "opéra comique" in three acts. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 16 November 1816. The libretto is by Pierre-David-Augustin Chapelle and Louis Mezières-Miot. This was the last of the composer's works to be premiered in his lifetime and was a great success; it enjoyed 66 performances before the end of 1817 and helped remedy the financial problems of the Opéra-Comique. It was revived to acclaim in a German translation in Berlin in December 1839.
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Louis Joseph Saint-Amans Louis Joseph Saint-Amans (1749-1820) was a French composer.
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Jean Martinon Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon (usually known simply as Jean Martinon (] ); 10 January 19101 March 1976) was a French conductor and composer.
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Michel Béroff Michel Béroff (born 9 May 1950) is a French pianist and conductor of Bulgarian origin.
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Marcel Sulzberger Johann Heinrich Samuel "Marcel" Sulzberger (1876–1941) was a Swiss composer, pianist and music author.
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Achille Campisiano Achille Domenico Campisiano (12 November 1837, Naro, Sicily – 17 April 1908, Paris) was a 19th–20th-century French pianist and composer of Italian origin. Also known under the pseudonym Achille de Campisiano, he composed opéras comiques, operettas and opéras bouffes. Died in Paris 17 April 1908 aged 70, Achille Campisiano is buried in the Donzy cemetery.
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Isidor Philipp Isidor Edmond Philipp (first name sometimes spelled Isidore) (2 September 1863 – 20 February 1958) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue of Jewish Hungarian descent. He was born in Budapest and died in Paris.
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Jean-Henri Ravina Jean-Henri Ravina (20 May 181830 September 1906) was a French virtuoso pianist, composer and teacher.
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La naissance de la lyre La naissance de la lyre ("The Birth of the Lyre") is an opera (styled a "conte lyrique") in one act by the French composer Albert Roussel. The libretto, by Théodore Reinach, is based on the satyr play "Ichneutae" by Sophocles. It was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 1 July 1925 with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska.
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Léonard Gautier Jean Léonard Louis Anton Gautier (12 July 1866 – 27 October 1955) was a German-born French composer famous for his simple eighth-note melody piano piece called "Le Secret" which at one time appeared in all of the popular piano anthologies and still continues appearing in current famous piano collection pieces such as "The Piano Bench of Classical Music".
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Philippe Gille Philippe Emile François Gille (10 December 1831 – 19 March 1901) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's "Manon" and Delibes' "Lakmé".
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Samson François Samson Pascal François (18 May 192422 October 1970) was a French pianist and composer.
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Théodore Lack Théodore Lack (3 September 1846 – 25 November 1921) was a French pianist and composer.
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Philippe Bianconi Philippe Bianconi (born in Nice, France on 27 March 1960) is a French pianist.
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Anna Caroline Oury Anna Caroline Oury ("née" De Belleville), also known as Ninette de Belleville, Ninette von Belleville or Ninette de Belleville-Oury (24 June 1808 – 22 July 1880), was a German pianist and composer of French ancestry.
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Thérèse (opera) Thérèse is an opera in two acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Jules Claretie.
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Pierre Montan Berton Pierre Montan Berton (7 January 1727 – 14 May 1780) was a French composer and conductor. He resided primarily in Paris and was an opera director.
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Antoine Mariotte Antoine Mariotte (22 December 187530 November 1944) was a French composer, conductor and music administrator.
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Jean-François Le Sueur Jean-François Le Sueur (or Lesueur; ] ) (15 February 17606 October 1837) was a French composer, best known for his oratorios and operas.
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Manon Manon (] ) is an "opéra comique" in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel "L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut" by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets designed by Eugène Carpezat (Act I), Auguste-Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (Acts II and III), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (Act IV).