Paul Milliet (writer)
Paul Milliet (born February 14, 1848 in Rio de Janeiro , † November 21, 1924 in Paris ) was a French librettist.
Milliet was best known for his libretti for Jules Massenet . For him he wrote "Werther" after Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and - together with Henri Grémont - the Hérodiade after Gustave Flaubert's Hérodias from his Trois contes .
He wrote the libretto for the opera Matthias Corvin for the Hungarian composer Sándor Bertha , who lives in Paris , three of his librettos were set to music by the Greek composer Spyros Samaras . He also translated the libretto for the French version of Manuel de Falla's opera La vida breve .
Milliet was married to the American singer Ada Adini .
Libretti
- Jules Massenet: Hérodiade (with Henri Grémont), opera, premiered in 1881
- Sándor Bertha: Matthias Corvin , comic opera, premier 1883 (Hungarian: Corvin Mátyás , 1884)
- Louis Gaston Ganne : Maître Jean , Fairy Game, WP 1884
- Jules Massenet: Werther (with Édouard Blau and Georges Hartmann ), opera, premier 1893 (in Vienna in German translation by Max Kalbeck 1892)
- Spyros Samaras: Storia d'amore o La biondinetta WP 1903
- Spyros Samaras: Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle Libretto , WP 1905
- Spyros Samaras: Rhea , WP 1908
- Manuel de Falla: La vie brève (translation: La vida breve ), opera, WP 1913
- Camille Erlanger : Forfaiture , musical comedy, premiered in 1921
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Milliet, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and librettist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1924 |
| Place of death | Paris |