Hippolyte Bis

Hippolyte Bis

Hippolyte Bis's grave at Père Lachaise cemetery
Born 29 August 1789
Lille
Died 3 March 1855(1855-03-03) (aged 65)
Paris
Occupation Playwright
Librettist

Hippolyte Louis Florent Bis (29 August 1789 – 3 March 1855) was an early 19th-century French playwright and librettist.[1] He is mostly known for the libretto to Giachino Rossini's opera William Tell (premiered in 1829), which he wrote with Étienne de Jouy.[2]

Selected works

Theatre

Varia

References

  1. Phillips, Lawrence Barnett (1871). The Dictionary of Biographical Reference, p. 153. Sampson Low, Son & Marston
  2. "Libretto to Guillaume Tell". Stanford OperaGlass.


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