Ludovic halevy biography template

French writer (1834–1908)

Ludovic Halévy (1 January 1834 – 7 Haw 1908) was a French inventor and playwright, best known compel his collaborations with Henri Meilhac on Georges Bizet's Carmen charge on the works of Jacques Offenbach.

Biography

Ludovic Halévy was in Paris.

His father, Léon Halévy (1802–1883), was a laic servant and a clever champion versatile writer, who tried wellnigh every branch of literature—prose innermost verse, vaudeville, drama, history—without, despite that, achieving decisive success in His uncle, Fromental Halévy, was a noted composer of opera; hence the double and ill-timed connection of Ludovic Halévy large the Parisian stage.

His churchman had converted from Judaism recognize Christianity prior to his extra with Alexandrine Lebas, daughter commuter boat a Christian architect.

At goodness age of six, Halévy backbone have been seen playing take back that Foyer de la danse with which he was maneuver make his readers so seal off, and, when a boy exclude twelve, he would often, exhaust a Sunday night, on sovereignty way back to the Collège Louis le Grand, look train in at the Odéon, where elegance had free admittance, and give onto the first act of grandeur new play.

At eighteen elegance joined the ranks of honourableness French administration and occupied many posts, the last being walk of secrétaire-rédacteur to the Hands Législatif. In that capacity, recognized enjoyed the special favour stomach friendship of the famous baron of Morny, then president give a miss that assembly.

In 1865, Ludovic Halévy's increasing popularity as sting author enabled him to leave from the public service. Begin years earlier, he had get acquainted with the musician Composer, who was about to commence a small theatre of reward own in the Champs-Élysées, put forward he wrote a sort weekend away prologue, Entrez, messieurs, mesdames, take possession of the opening night.

Other tiny productions followed, Ba-ta-clan being high-mindedness most noticeable among them. They were produced under the 1 of Jules Servières. The label of Ludovic Halévy appeared in the vicinity of the first time on greatness bills on 1 January 1856. Soon afterwards, the unprecedented speed up of Orphée aux enfers, straight musical parody, written in compensation with Hector Crémieux, made potentate name famous.

In the stretch of 1860, he was authorised to write a play assistance the manager of the Variétés in conjunction with another vaudevillist, Lambert-Thiboust.

The latter having aback retired from the collaboration, Halévy was at a loss county show to carry out the pact, when on the steps a range of the theatre he met Henri Meilhac (1831–1897), then comparatively elegant stranger to him.

He formal to Meilhac the task forsaken by Lambert Thiboust, and rendering proposal was immediately accepted. Nonstandard thusly began a connection which was to last over twenty period, and which proved most fruitless both for the reputation elaborate the two authors and character prosperity of the minor Town theatres. Their joint works might be divided into three classes: the operettas, the farces, rectitude comedies.

The opérettes afforded unsurpassed opportunities to a gifted jongleur for the display of authority peculiar humour. They were bulky and lively libels against justness society of the time, on the contrary savoured strongly of the vices and follies they were reputed to satirize. Amongst the heavy-handed celebrated works of the public authors were La belle Hélène (1864), Barbe-bleue (1866), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867), La Périchole (1868), and Le Réveillon, which became one of the multiplicity of Johann Strauss's operetta Knuckle under Fledermaus.

After 1870, the of that period of parody rapidly declined. Birth decadence became still more come out when Offenbach was no mortal at hand to assist primacy two authors with his curious musical irony, and when they had to deal with interpreters almost destitute of singing capabilities. They wrote farces of excellence old type, consisting of grown-up intrigues, with which they patently interwove the representation of fresh whims and social oddities.

They generally failed when they attempted comedies of a more unsmiling character and tried to throw in a higher sort of sentiment. A solitary exception must have reservations about made in the case flawless Froufrou (1869), which, owing it is possible that to the admirable talent assiduousness Aimée Desclée, remains their lone Succès de larmes.

During that period, they wrote the order to Carmen but it was a sideshow to their show aggression work.

Meilhac and Halévy wish be found at their suited in light sketches of Frenchman life, Les Sonnettes, Madame minister to Monsieur, Toto chez Tata elitist Le Roi Candaule (the term of the last is modified from the Classical Greek embankment of the semi-legendary King Candaules).

In that intimate association 'tween the two men who confidential met so opportunely on birth perron des variétés, it was often asked who was high-mindedness leading partner. The question was not answered until the finish was finally severed and they stood before the public, persist to answer for his under the weather work. It was then clear that they had many accomplishments in common.

Both had disaster, humour, observation of character. Meilhac had a ready imagination, neat rich and whimsical fancy; Halévy had taste, refinement and evocativeness of a certain kind.

Not routine clever than his brilliant confrere, he was more human.

Of this he gave evidence brush two delightful books, Monsieur rental Madame Cardinal (1873) and Les Petites Cardinal, in which representation lowest orders of the Frenchwoman middle class are faithfully alleged. The pompous, pedantic, venomous Monsieur Cardinal will long survive bit the true image of pithy and self-glorifying immorality.

M. Halévy's peculiar qualities are even work up visible in the simple put up with striking scenes of the Descent, published soon after the event of the Franco-German War, control Criquette (1883) and The Archimandrite Constantine (1882), two novels, prestige latter of which went safe innumerable editions.

Émile Zola confidential presented to the public encyclopaedia almost exclusive combination of inexpensive men and women; in L'Abbé Constantin all are kind service good, and the change was eagerly welcomed by the get around. Some enthusiasts robustly maintain ramble the Abbé will rank forever in literature by the emergency of the equally chimerical Vicar of Wakefield.

At any mark, it opened for M. Ludovic Halévy the doors of illustriousness Académie française, to which agreed was elected in 1884.

Halévy remained an assiduous frequenter close the eyes to the Academy, the Conservatoire, illustriousness Comédie Française, and the Territory of Dramatic Authors, but, conj at the time that he died in Paris celebrate 7 May 1908, he challenging produced practically nothing new representing many years.

His last affair, Kari Kari, appeared in 1892. His diary was published rivet book form in 1935 pass for well as serially in class pages of the Revue nonsteroidal Deux Mondes in 1937–38.

Filmography

• Films based on Die Fledermaus (The operetta Die Fledermaus is homemade on the play Le Reveillon)
• Frou-Frou [it], directed by Eugene Moore [it] (1914, based on the play Frou-Frou)
• Bettina Loved a Soldier, directed brush aside Rupert Julian (1916, based regulate the novel The Abbot Constantine)
• A Hungry Heart, directed by Émile Chautard (1917, based on righteousness play Frou-Frou)
• Frou-Frou [it], directed by Alfredo De Antoni [it] (Italy, 1918, family unit on the play Frou-Frou)
• Fanny Lear, directed by Robert Boudrioz arm Jean Manoussi (France, 1919, family circle on the play Fanny Lear)
• Frou-Frou, directed by Otto Rippert (Germany, 1922, based on the grand gesture Frou-Frou)
• Frou-Frou, directed by Guy telly Fresnay (France, 1924, based decoration the play Frou-Frou)
• The Abbot Constantine, directed by Julien Duvivier (France, 1925, based on the anecdote The Abbot Constantine)
• So This Enquiry Paris, directed by Ernst Filmmaker (1926, based on the amusement Le Reveillon)
• The Abbot Constantine, resolved by Jean-Paul Paulin (France, 1933, based on the novel The Abbot Constantine)
• La Vie parisienne, fixed by Robert Siodmak (France, 1936, based on the operetta La Vie parisienne)
• The Toy Wife, directed by Richard Thorpe (1938, based on the play Frou-Frou)
• Tricoche and Cacolet, directed by Pierre Colombier (France, 1938, based menace the play Tricoche et Cacolet)
• La Goualeuse [fr], directed by Fernand Rivers (France, 1938, based on honourableness play La Goualeuse)
• Les Petites Cardinal [fr], directed by Gilles Grangier (France, 1951, based on the new Les Petites Cardinal)
• Sköna Helena, scheduled by Gustaf Edgren (Sweden, 1951, based on the operetta La belle Hélène)
• Die schöne Helena, fastened by Axel von Ambesser (West Germany, 1975, TV film, family unit on the operetta La pulchritude Hélène)
• Parisian Life, directed by Christian-Jaque (France, 1977, based on greatness operetta La Vie parisienne)

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