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    Henri Meilhac (23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, best known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on Georges...
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    Carmen (category Libretti by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy)
    acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper...
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    an 1861 comedy play, L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac. The operetta has enjoyed extraordinary international success since...
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    opera was an adaptation of the 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella Carmen by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Carmen Jones was a CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color...
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    Orlofsky), words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, music by Johann Strauss 1904 : Barbe-bleue by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy...
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    French author and playwright, best known for his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's Carmen and on the works of Jacques Offenbach. Ludovic...
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  • the French opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It is sung by the bullfighter (French: toréador)...
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    Auber, Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini and Verdi. The French writers' duo Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy wrote many opera and operetta libretti for the likes...
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    sinners punished for lust in the second circle. Jacques Offenbach, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy's 1864 operetta La belle Hélène tells a droll version...
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  • based upon the 1875 opera Carmen by Georges Bizet, Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac, but set in modern-day Philadelphia and Los Angeles and featuring a...
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  • Although the French libretto of the complete opéra comique was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, the words of the habanera originated from Bizet...
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    of French comedy, particularly Eugène Labiche, Alfred Hennequin and Henri Meilhac. With his technique honed, and sometimes in collaboration with a co-author...
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    Manon (category Libretti by Henri Meilhac)
    opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier...
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  • Lucas (1842–1891), mathematician Aimé Maillart (1817–1871), composer Henri Meilhac (1830–1897), dramatist Mary Marquet (1895–1979), actress Victor Massé...
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    comedy by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Théâtre du Palais-Royal 1864 (21 December): Le Photographe, comédie-vaudeville by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic...
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    Périchole (1868). Halévy was joined as librettist for all of them by Henri Meilhac. Offenbach, who called them "Meil" and "Hal", said of this trinity:...
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  • Operetta 3 acts Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, after L'attaché d'ambassade by Henri Meilhac 30 December 1905 Vienna, Theater an der Wien Der Schlüssel zum Paradies...
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    English adaptation of a French comedic play of the same name written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The title role has been played by many actors, notably...
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    Hermann Sudermann - Minnie Maddern Fiske's company c.1890s Frou-Frou Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy - Minnie Maddern Fiske's company c.1890s Becky Sharp...
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    vaudeville play by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Le Réveillon, loosely based on the Benedix farce, opened at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. Meilhac and Halévy...
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    La belle Hélène (category Libretti by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy)
    bouffe in three acts, with music by Jacques Offenbach and words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The piece parodies the story of Helen's elopement...
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  • plot is based on the libretto of the operetta Mam'zelle Nitouche by Henri Meilhac and Albert Millaud. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The...
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    and drama critic. He was literary editor of the Revue de Paris with Henri Meilhac, a member of the Académie française. A student at the École Normale...
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    Ernst Lubitsch. It is based on the 1872 stage play Le Reveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. It stars Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller. The film...
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    Barbe-bleue (opera) (category Libretti by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy)
    three acts (four scenes) by Jacques Offenbach to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy based on Charles Perrault's 1697 story. The work...
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  • Kristen Childs La belle Hélène 1864 Paris opera bouffe Jacques Offenbach Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy Offenbach La Belle Meunière 1948 Film Tony Aubin...
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    Ciprienne in Divorçons by Victorien Sardou and Émile de Najac, Frou-Frou by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy or Victorien Sardou's Fédora. These were popular...
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  • templiers composed c. 1875, but lost Bérangère et Anatole sainete 1 act Henri Meilhac and Paul Poirson February 1876 Paris, Cercle de l'Union artistique Le...
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  • (1819-1880) Arias and Overtures La Périchole (Paris, 1868; libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) 1 (2:39) Ouverture 2 (3:18) La lettre de la Périchole:...
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  • Karl-Heinz Teuber 20 Carmen Gaumont Francesco Rosi (director/screenplay); Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy, Tonino Guerra (screenplay); Julia Migenes-Johnson,...
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