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Henry Brougham Farnie - Life and Career - Librettist and Adapter of French Operettas
... He wrote or adapted libretti for dozens of operettas in the 1870s and 1880s ... Farnie's other adaptations include the English libretti for Offenbach's Breaking the Spell (Le Violoneau) (1870 later played as a companion piece with The Sorcerer), Geneviève de Brabant ... Farnie wrote some original libretti, including Nemesis The Bride of Song, a one act opera with music by Julius Benedict and The Sleeping Queen for Thomas German Reed, with music by Balfe ...
... He wrote or adapted libretti for dozens of operettas in the 1870s and 1880s ... Farnie's other adaptations include the English libretti for Offenbach's Breaking the Spell (Le Violoneau) (1870 later played as a companion piece with The Sorcerer), Geneviève de Brabant ... Farnie wrote some original libretti, including Nemesis The Bride of Song, a one act opera with music by Julius Benedict and The Sleeping Queen for Thomas German Reed, with music by Balfe ...
Nicola Francesco Haym
... He is best remembered for adapting texts into libretti for the London operas of George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini ... Libretti that he provided for Handel included those for Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Flavio, Tamerlano, Rodelinda, and several others for Bononcini, he produced two, Calfurnia and Astianatte ... rather than in a bilingual blend of English and Italian, Haym spent much time adapting both libretti and music for the many pasticcios that were staged at this time ...
... He is best remembered for adapting texts into libretti for the London operas of George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini ... Libretti that he provided for Handel included those for Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Flavio, Tamerlano, Rodelinda, and several others for Bononcini, he produced two, Calfurnia and Astianatte ... rather than in a bilingual blend of English and Italian, Haym spent much time adapting both libretti and music for the many pasticcios that were staged at this time ...
Ferdinando Fontana - Biography
... Apart from his plays and opera libretti, he wrote poems (in both Italian and Milanese dialect), travel books, and articles in various Italian newspapers, including Corriere della Sera ... He wrote numerous libretti, including two for Alberto Franchetti (Asrael and Zoroastro) and two for Puccini (Le Villi and Edgar) ... He also translated several operetta libretti for performance in Italy, including Franz Lehár's Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) and Der Graf von Luxemburg (The Count of Luxembourg ...
... Apart from his plays and opera libretti, he wrote poems (in both Italian and Milanese dialect), travel books, and articles in various Italian newspapers, including Corriere della Sera ... He wrote numerous libretti, including two for Alberto Franchetti (Asrael and Zoroastro) and two for Puccini (Le Villi and Edgar) ... He also translated several operetta libretti for performance in Italy, including Franz Lehár's Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) and Der Graf von Luxemburg (The Count of Luxembourg ...
Eugène Scribe - Biography
... Scribe was prolific he wrote various dramas — vaudevilles, comedies, tragedies and opera libretti ... Scribe wrote libretti for operas for many major composers of his time, often for productions destined for the Paris Opéra ... Many of these libretti constitute the basis of the Grand Opera genre and changed the whole course of French lyric drama ...
... Scribe was prolific he wrote various dramas — vaudevilles, comedies, tragedies and opera libretti ... Scribe wrote libretti for operas for many major composers of his time, often for productions destined for the Paris Opéra ... Many of these libretti constitute the basis of the Grand Opera genre and changed the whole course of French lyric drama ...
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