Henri Trianon

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Henri Trianon
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Born(1811-07-11)11 July 1811
Paris, France
Died17 October 1896(1896-10-17) (aged 85)
Paris, France
Occupation critic, librettist, translator, librarian

Henri Trianon (11 July 1811 in Paris – 17 October 1896 in Paris) was a French critic, librettist and translator of works by Homer and Plato, and operas by Weber and Mozart into French. [1] He was an artistic and literary critic in Paris who eventually became teacher. In 1842 he became under-librarian and then librarian at Sainte Geneviève in 1849. [2] From 1857-59 Trianon was associated with Nestor Roqueplan in the administration of the Opéra-Comique.

He also wrote the libretto to the ballet Orfa by Adolphe Adam and several others, including Le Maître à Chanter (1853) by Armand Limnander, [3] Pantagruel (1855) by Théodore Labarre, Les Bleuets (1867) by Jules Cohen, and Ivan IV by Bizet, which he co-wrote once it had been refused by Charles Gounod. [4]

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References

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  2. Dean W. Bizet's Ivan IV. In: Essays on Opera. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990.
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  4. Huebner, Steven (1992), The Operas of Charles Gounod, 314 p. Oxford University Press, ISBN   019-315-329-7