Le roi s'amuse (French pronunciation: [lə ʁwa samyz]; literally, The King Amuses Himself or The King Has Fun) is a French play in five acts written by...
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game Balatro. Triboulet appears as a character in the Victor Hugo play Le roi s'amuse, and in the Verdi opera inspired by the play, Rigoletto. Triboulet appears...
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libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors...
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story was the inspiration for a character in Victor Hugo's 1832 play Le roi s'amuse who became Count Monterone when Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi...
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1851 opera Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, itself based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. The film stars Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford, Agnes Bruckner...
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on a window pane. Victor Hugo used this phrase verbatim in his play, Le roi s'amuse, on which Rigoletto is based. Fleury François Richard depicted in an...
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Play, a translation and adaptation by Tony Harrison of Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse, for the National Theatre, London, 1996. In 1997, he was nominated for...
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Itinerant court in European kingdoms in the Early Middle Ages. Maison du Roi in France during the Ancien Régime Ministry of the Imperial Court in Imperial...
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Victor Hugo (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
Cromwell (1827) Les Orientales (1829) Hernani (1830) Marion de Lorme (1831) Les Feuilles d'automne (Autumn Leaves; 1831) Le roi s'amuse (1832) Lucrezia...
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an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 11...
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Mantua. Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto (based on Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse) is set in Mantua. Austro-Hungarian authorities in Venice forced him...
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death most closely resembles the ending of Rigoletto, based on Hugo's Le roi s'amuse: the court jester wishes to kill the king, but by accident kills his...
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Fanny Kemble, Francis the First, and the 1832 play by Victor Hugo, Le Roi s'amuse ("The King's Amusement"), which featured the jester Triboulet, the inspiration...
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play about Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I Victor Hugo, Le roi s'amuse (1832) – scathing, banned play about French King Francis I (and, indirectly...
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Le roi s'amuse (1832) Lucrezia Borgia (1833) Marie Tudor (1833) Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835) La Esmeralda (1836; libretto only) Ruy Blas (1838) Les...
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Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse at the Comédie-Française, consisting of a suite of pastiche medieval dances for orchestra ("Six airs de danse dans le style ancien")...
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experts. "Bouffon ! quand le roi s'amuse - Ép. 3/4 - Histoire du rire". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2021-04-19.. See Le Recueil des Repues Franches...
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Le roi s'amuse (1832) Lucrezia Borgia (1833) Marie Tudor (1833) Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835) La Esmeralda (1836; libretto only) Ruy Blas (1838) Les...
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Delibes wrote a passepied as part of his incidental music for the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. More modern examples include: The fourth and final movement...
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notably Demain dès l'aube and À Villequier in Pauca Meae, the fourth book of Les Contemplations. Victor Hugo did not write for several years afterwards owing...
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Giuseppe Verdi (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
with Piave and wrote the music for Rigoletto (based on Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse) for Venice in March 1851. This was the first of a sequence of three...
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plays and novels were later adapted as operas (e.g. Hernani, Ruy Blas, Le roi s'amuse, Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, Marie Tudor, and Lucrèce Borgia), La Esmeralda...
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Hugo's book of poetry 'Odes et Ballades'), those following the drama Le Roi s'amuse as antitheses (because their characters were torn apart by conflicting...
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together. Victor Hugo even slipped this personal anecdote into the plot of Les Misérables: Marius and Cosette’s wedding night takes place on the same date...
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Cortège and Air de danse, Prélude à l'Après midi d'un faune Delibes Le Roi s'amuse Delius Brigg Fair, Dance Rhapsody No 2, Fennimore and Gerda Intermezzo...
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Andromaque, Antigone, Antigone, Bérénice, Hernani, Iphigénie, Le Roi s'amuse and Les Femmes savantes. Le Figaro said that Bartet served the Comédie-Française with...
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Stello Aleksander Fredro – Pan Jowialski (Mr. Jovial) Victor Hugo – Le Roi s'amuse Douglas William Jerrold The Bride of Ludgate The Factory Girl The Rent...
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another work for 1850, with the new opera to be based on Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse from a libretto to be written by Salvadore Cammarano. But his experience...
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including The Fool’s Revenge (1869), an adaption of Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse (also adapted by Verdi as Rigoletto), 'Twixt Axe and Crown (1870), Jeanne...
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Theatre, London, 1996. A translation and adaptation of Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse. The play was subsequently published by Faber and Faber. Fram (play)...
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