Ernest Guiraud was an American-born French composer and music teacher. He is best known for writing the traditional orchestral recitatives used for Bizet's opera Carmen and for Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann.
Paul Armand Silvestre was a 19th-century French poet and conteur born in Paris.
Joseph Méry was a French writer, journalist, novelist, poet, playwright and librettist.
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, French playwright, was born and died in Paris. He was one of the most prolific librettists of the 19th century, often working in collaboration with others.
Jules-Adenis de Colombeau was a 19th-century French opera librettist, playwright, and journalist.
Henri Cain was a French dramatist, opera and ballet librettist. He wrote over forty librettos from 1893 to his death, for many of the most prominent composers of the Parisian Belle Epoque.
Paul Milliet was a French playwright and librettist of the Parisian Belle Époque.
Les mariages samnites is an opéra comique, described as a drame lyrique, in three acts by André Grétry, The French text was by Barnabé Farmain de Rosoi based on a work by Jean François Marmontel.
The Bells is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff. It was based on an 1867 French stage play called Le Juif Polonais by Erckmann-Chatrian. The play was translated to English in 1871 by Leopold Lewis at which time it was retitled The Bells. The English version of the play was performed in the U.S. in the 19th century by Sir Henry Irving. Le Juif Polonais was also adapted into an opera of the same name in three acts by Camille Erlanger, composed to a libretto by Henri Cain.
Pierre Laujon was a French playwright and chansonnier. He was uncle to the playwright Pierre-Yves Barré.
Louis Ferdinand de Gramont was a French journalist, dramatist, and librettist. He was a son of Ferdinand de Gramont.
Le Juif polonais is a 1900 opera in three acts by Camille Erlanger composed to a libretto by Henri Caïn.
Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d'Ollone was a 20th-century French composer.
Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, also known by the pseudonym Norbert Lorédan, was a French theatre director, librettist, journalist and writer. He was born in Toulouse and died in Paris.
Aphrodite: mœurs antiques is an 1896 French-language novel by Pierre Louÿs.
Alfred Duru was a 19th-century French playwright and operetta librettist who collaborated on more than 40 librettos for the leading French composers of operetta: Hervé, Offenbach, Lecocq and Audran.
Les barbares is a 1901 tragédie lyrique in 3 acts by Camille Saint-Saëns to a libretto by Victorien Sardou and Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi. The opera was originally intended for the Roman theatre of Orange, in Provence, but instead premiered at the Paris Opéra Palais Garnier in October 1901.
La Légende de Saint-Julien L’hospitalier is an 1897 opera by Camille Erlanger based on the story of the same name by Gustave Flaubert. It was Erlanger's first opera, and following a concert performance at the conservatoire in 1894 was produced at the Opera-comique, Paris, in 1897.
Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher was a French composer and pianist.
Marie-Françoise-Adélaïde Gavaudan, called Mlle Gavaudan cadette and nicknamed Spinette, (1767–1805) was a French operatic soprano.
