Henri Cain

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Henri Cain (1859 - 21 November 1937) was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He wrote over forty librettos from 1893 to his death, for many of the most prominent composers of the Parisian Belle Epoque.

[edit] Operas to librettos by Henri Cain

La Vivandière (1893)

La Navarraise (1894), Sapho (1897), Cendrillon (1899), Chérubin (1905), Don Quichotte (1910), Roma (1912)

Le juif polonais (1900), Bacchus triomphant (1909)

Les pêcheurs de Saint-Jean (1906)

Marcella (1909)

Agnes dame galante (1912), Carmosine (1913), Gismonda (1919)

Cirano di Bergerac (1936)