Jules Barbier

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Paul Jules Barbier (8 March 1825 – 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters. His libretti for extant operas include: Charles Gounod: - La Colombe; - Faust (*); - Le Médecin malgré lui (*);- - Philémon et Baucis; - Polyeucte; - La Reine de Saba, and - Roméo et Juliette (*) Victor Massé: - Galathée Giacomo Meyerbeer: - Le pardon de Ploërmel (later revised as Dinorah) Jacques Offenbach :- The Tales of Hoffmann Camille Saint-Saëns: - Le timbre d'argent Ambroise Thomas: - Hamlet (*), - Mignon (*) and - Francesca da Rimini. (*) co-written with Michel Carré. He also wrote the libretto for La Guzla de l'Émir, a one-act comic opera by Georges Bizet. This was never performed and probably destroyed. He wrote the scenario for Léo Delibes' ballet Sylvia. Gounod wrote incidental music to Barbier's play Jeanne d'Arc, and the libretto to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans was partially based on it. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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Offenbach : Les Contes d'Hoffmann

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Angela Gheorghiu: Diva

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Gounod: Faust

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Faust Plasson

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The Harold Wayne Collection, Vol. 4 (1902-1904)

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Opera Arias (Baritone): Hvorostovsky, Dmitri - BORODIN, A.P. / MUSSORGSKY, M.P. / RUBINSTEIN, A. / WAGNER, R. / GIORDANO, U. / VER

Klemperer Rarities: Budapest, Vol. 3 (1949)

Kreisler: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 (1914-1916)

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Singers of the Century: Marcel Wittrisch in Opera Arias Scenes (2019 Remaster)

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Gounod: Faust (Abridged) (Sung in English)

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Mendelssohn, Handel, Bach, Strauss: Songs For Counter-Tenor And Orchestra

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Vocal Recital: Ackte, Aino - Verdi, G. / Wagner, R. / Gounod / Grieg, E. / Messager / Merikanto / Schumann, R. (Collected Recordings, 1902-1913)

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