Henri Trianon | |
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 Photograph by Nadar | |
| Born | 11 July 1811 Paris, France |
| Died | 17 October 1896 (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]
- ^ Walsh TJ. Second Empire Opera – The Théâtre-Lyrique Paris 1851-1870. John Calder Ltd, London, 1981.
- ^ Dean W. Bizet's Ivan IV. In: Essays on Opera. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990.
- ^ (in French) Thys, Augustin (1855), Historique des sociétés chorales de Belgique, p. 173, De Busscher, OCLC 66027992
- ^ Huebner, Steven (1992), The Operas of Charles Gounod, 314 p. Oxford University Press, ISBN 019-315-329-7