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Name
  
Michel Carre

Role
  
Librettist

Children
  
Michel Carre


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Died
  
June 27, 1872, Argenteuil, France

Books
  
The Pearl Fishers: Les Pe^cheurs de Perles : Opera in French in Three Acts

Libretti
  
Faust, Romeo et Juliette, Les pecheurs de perles, Hamlet

Similar People
  
Jules Barbier, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Victor Masse, Jacques Offenbach

Gounod's Faust excerpt


Michel Carré (20 October 1821, Besançon – 27 June 1872, Argenteuil) was a prolific French librettist.

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He went to Paris in 1840 intending to become a painter but took up writing instead. He wrote verse and plays before turning to writing libretti. He wrote the text for Charles Gounod's Mireille (1864) on his own, and collaborated with Eugène Cormon on Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles. However, the majority of his libretti were completed in tandem with Jules Barbier, with whom he wrote the libretti for numerous operas, including Camille Saint-Saëns's Le timbre d'argent (libretto written in 1864, first performed in 1877), Gounod's Faust (1859), Roméo et Juliette (1867), and Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann (1881). As with the other libretti by Barbier and himself, these were adaptations of existing literary masterworks.

His son, Michel-Antoine (1865–1945), followed in his father's footsteps, also writing libretti, and later directing silent films. His nephew Albert Carré (1852–1938) also wrote libretti.

References

Michel Carré Wikipedia