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    Augustin Eugène Scribe (French: [oɡystɛ̃ øʒɛn skʁib]; 24 December 1791 – 20 February 1861) was a French dramatist and librettist. He is known for writing...
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    from nineteenth-century theatre, developed by the French dramatist Eugène Scribe. It is characterised by concise plotting, compelling narrative and a...
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    This is a list of known stage works by the playwright and librettist Eugène Scribe. He used many pen-names, and contributed anonymously to various works...
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    He soon established a professional partnership with the librettist Eugène Scribe that lasted for 41 years and produced 39 operas, most of them commercial...
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  • Look up scribe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A scribe is a person who writes documents by hand. Scribe may also refer to: Eugène Scribe, a French...
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    in one act in French with music by Louise Bertin and a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Jacques Féréol Mazas. The work is a comedy inspired by the fairy...
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  • Clemence Dane. Anne is a character in the play Le Verre d'eau (1840), by Eugène Scribe. The titular play Queen Anne, written by the playwright Helen Edmundson...
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    Charles Duveyrier Eugène Scribe 5 French Salle Le Peletier, Paris 13 June 1855 19a Giovanna de Guzman Charles Duveyrier Eugène Scribe Ettore Caimi 5 Italian...
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    Girardin's Lady Tartuffe, or Duchess of Marlborough in The Glass of Water by Eugène Scribe. She originated the roles of Victorien Sardou's Fédora (showcase role...
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    Søren Kierkegaard, Stages on Life's Way, Hong, p. 323-328 "Eugène Scribe Essay - Scribe, Eugène". eNotes. Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Vol. 1, Swenson 1944n...
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    changed. Popularized in the nineteenth century by the French playwrights Eugène Scribe and Victorien Sardou, and perhaps the most schematic of all formats...
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    L'elisir d'amore (category Operas based on works by Eugène Scribe)
    Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's Le philtre (1831). The opera premiered...
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  • However, there is speculation that Coulon was probably the son of Eugène Scribe. Georges Coulon had six sons: Jean-Paul Coulon, Jean-Pierre Coulon,...
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    Le prophète (category Libretti by Eugène Scribe)
    premiered in Paris on 16 April 1849. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, after passages from the Essay on the Manners and...
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    Retrieved 2017-09-04. "Gallica: L'africaine : opéra en 5 actes / par Eugène Scribe ; musique de Meyerbeer. 1924". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Archived...
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    of Mozart's greatest operas, and for many other composers as well. Eugène Scribe was one of the most prolific librettists of the 19th century, providing...
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  • Aignan (1773–1824) Victor Henri Joseph Brahain Ducange (1783–1833) Eugène Scribe (1791–1861) Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863) Antoinette Henriette Clémence...
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    Un ballo in maschera (category Operas based on works by Eugène Scribe)
    three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, Gustave III, ou Le...
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  • Royer Gustave Vaëz Eugène Scribe Don Pasquale, 1940 Giovanni Ruffini Gaetano Donizetti Le domino noir Daniel Auber Eugène Scribe The Black Domino, 1929...
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    Saint-Georges wrote over seventy stage pieces in collaboration with Eugène Scribe and other authors. He also wrote novels, including Un Mariage de prince...
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  • [see also Il duca d'Alba] grand opéra 4 acts Charles Duveyrier and Eugène Scribe incomplete, composed 1839   L'Ange de Nisida [see also La favorite]...
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    La muette de Portici (category Libretti by Eugène Scribe)
    acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe. The work has an important place in music history as the earliest French...
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    La Juive (category Libretti by Eugène Scribe)
    in five acts by Fromental Halévy to an original French libretto by Eugène Scribe; it was first performed at the Opéra, Paris, on 23 February 1835. La...
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    in the context of sensational and melodramatic libretti created by Eugène Scribe and were enhanced by the up-to-date theatre technology of the Paris...
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    Les Huguenots (category Libretti by Eugène Scribe)
    spectacular examples of grand opera. In five acts, to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, it premiered in Paris on 29 February 1836. Les...
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    the play Le comte de Comminges by Baculard d'Arnaud with additions by Eugène Scribe based on the story of Leonora de Guzman. The opera concerns the romantic...
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    Hector Berlioz in 1839. He also collaborated with Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugène Scribe on the libretti of Les Huguenots (1836) and Le prophète (1849). Synchronicity...
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    by the disgruntled nobleman Jacob Johan Anckarström, an event which Eugène Scribe and Daniel Auber turned into the opera Gustave III. The same event was...
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    Opéra en Cinq Actes, composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer from a libretto by Eugène Scribe, prominently includes the character of Vasco da Gama. The events depicted...
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  • which required an opera in Italian, as was normal for such commissions. Eugène Scribe repurposed an existing French libretto which was translated into Italian...
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