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Édouard Blau

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Name
  
Edouard Blau


Role
  
Dramatist

Died
  
January 8, 1906, Paris, France

Books
  
Werther: A Performance Guide

Libretti
  
Werther, Le Cid, Le roi d\'Ys

Similar People
  
Louis Gallet, Adolphe d\'Ennery, Jules Massenet, Edouard Lalo, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Édouard Blau (30 May 1836, in Blois – 7 January 1906, in Paris) was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He was a cousin of Alfred Blau, another librettist of the same period.

Édouard Blau

Going to Paris at the age of 20 he worked at the Assistance Publique but from 1870 concentrated on theatrical writing. For his libretti he collaborated with Louis Gallet, Alfred Blau, Camille du Locle and Louis de Gramont.

Operas to librettos by Édouard Blau

  • Georges Bizet
  • La Coupe du roi de Thulé (1868–9)
  • Don Rodrigue (1873)
  • Jacques Offenbach
  • La Marocaine (1879)
  • Belle Lurette (1880)
  • Benjamin Godard
  • Dante (1880)
  • Jules Massenet
  • Le Cid (1885)
  • Werther (1892)
  • Édouard Lalo
  • Le roi d'Ys (1888)
  • References

    Édouard Blau Wikipedia