Name Louis Anseaume | Role Librettist | |
Died August 1784, Paris, France Libretti L'ile de Merlin, ou Le monde renverse Similar People Christoph Willibald Gluck, Egidio Duni, Andre Gretry | ||
Louis Anseaume (1721 – 7 July 1784, Paris) was a French playwright and librettist.
He contributed the words for operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and François-André Danican Philidor. He is credited with developing the genre of comédie mêlée d'ariettes (comedy mixed with ariettes), a type of opéra comique. A promptor and répétiteur at Comédie Italienne, he was deputy director of the Opéra-Comique and wrote some forty plays, often in collaboration with Charles-Simon Favart, including several opéras-comiques with Duni :
He was one of the founders of the French opéra comique genre.
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