Edmond Gondinet

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Edmond Gondinet

Pierre Edmond Julien Gondinet (born March 7, 1828 in Laurière , Haute-Vienne , † November 19, 1888 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , Hauts-de-Seine ) was a French playwright and librettist .

life and work

Gondinet initially devoted himself to administration, but after achieving decisive successes in the Théâtre-Français and the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell with the comedy Trop curieux (1863), Les Victimes de l'argent (1865) and Les Révoltées (1867) had, all over to stage poetry.

Edmond Gondinet died on November 19, 1888 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and found his final resting place there on the " Cimetière vieux ".

reception

Gondinet's plays were - more or less - all successful; but never outlasted a theater season. His focus was on the comedy, sometimes also on satire. His dramas owed to patriotism (including “Libres!”) Failed official criticism.

He worked u. a. closely with Eugène Labiche and Alphonse Daudet , z. B. Le plus heureux des trois (Labiche), L'alouette with Albert Wolff (1881) and others, also the opera texts to the operas of Léo Delibes Le roi l'a dit and Lakmé .

Works (selection)

Plays
  • La Cravate blanche. Paris 1867.
  • Comte Jacques . Paris 1868.
  • Les grandes demoiselles . Paris 1868.
  • Gauvaud, Minard et Cie . Paris 1869.
  • Fin courant . Paris 1870 (together with Albert Wolff )
  • Christiane . Paris 1871.
  • Panazol . Paris 1872.
  • Libres! . Paris 1873
  • Le homard . Paris 1874.
  • Gilberte . Paris 1874 (together with Raymond Deslandes ).
  • Le panache . Paris 1875.
  • Le professeur pour dames . Paris 1877.
  • Les convictions de papa . Paris 1877.
  • Le Club. Comedie en trois actes . Paris 1877 (with Félix Cohen )
    • German translation: The club. Comedy in three acts . Reclam, Leipzig 1885.
  • Les vieilles couches . Paris 1878.
  • Les grands enfants . Paris 1880 (with Paul de Nargaliers )
  • Les Braves gens . Paris 1880 (together with Pierre Wolff ).
  • Un voyage d'agrément . Paris 1881 (with Alexandre Bisson )
    • German translation: A pleasure trip. Comedy in three acts . Eirich Publishing House, Vienna 1881.
  • Tete de linotte . Paris 1882 (together with Théodore Barrière )
    • German translation: Dispersed. Comedy in three acts . Reclam, Leipzig 1893.
  • Le baron de Carabasse . Paris 1885 (together with Émile Bergerat )
Libretti
  • Léo Delibes : Le roi l'a dit . Paris 1873.
    • German translation: The king said it. Comic opera in three acts . Theater Verlag Bloch, Berlin 1874.
  • Léo Delibes: Jean de Nivelle . Paris 1880.
    • German translation: Jean von Nivelle. Opera in three acts . Fürstner publishing house, Berlin 1881.
  • Léo Delibes: Lakmé . Paris 1883.
    • German translation: Lakme. Opera in three acts . Fürstner publishing house, Berlin 1884.
Ballets
  • Raoul Pugno : Viviane . Paris 1886.
    • German translation: Viviana. Great romantic ballet with choirs in five acts and nine pictures . Dreyer, Berlin 1886.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell , Paris on July 23, 1867.
  2. ^ First performance at the Théatre du Gymnase Marie Bell, Paris on January 25, 1868.
  3. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, Paris on March 10, 1868.
  4. ^ First performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal , Paris on April 17, 1869.
  5. ↑ First performance at the Comédie-Française , Paris on December 20, 1871.
  6. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Vaudeville , Paris on June 10, 1873.
  7. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin , Paris on November 22, 1873.
  8. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris on April 2, 1874.
  9. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, Paris on September 19, 1874.
  10. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris on October 12, 1875.
  11. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre des Variétés , Paris on April 4, 1877.
  12. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris on April 13, 1877.
  13. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Vaudeville , Paris on November 22, 1877.
  14. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris on March 20, 1878.
  15. ^ First performance at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, Paris on October 7, 1880.
  16. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, Paris on December 3, 1880.
  17. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, Paris on June 3, 1881.
  18. ↑ First performance at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, Paris on September 11, 1882.
  19. ^ First performance at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris on December 10, 1885.
  20. ↑ First performance at the Opéra-Comique , Paris on May 24, 1873.
  21. ↑ First performance at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on March 8, 1880.
  22. ↑ First performance at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on April 14, 1883.
  23. ↑ First performance at the Eden-Théâtre , Paris on October 28, 1886.

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personal data
SURNAME Gondinet, Edmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gondinet, Pierre Edmond Julien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poet and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Laurière , Haute-Vienne department
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1888
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine