Jules Barbier

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Jules Barbier
Jules Barbier

Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 1825 - 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters [1].

His libretti for extant operas include:

(*) co-written with Michel Carré.

He also wrote the libretto for La Guzla de l'Émir, a one-act comic opera by Georges Bizet. This was never performed and probably destroyed.

He wrote the scenario for Léo Delibes' ballet Sylvia.

Gounod wrote incidental music to Barbier's play Jeanne d'Arc, and the libretto to Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans was partially based on it.

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