Philippe Gille
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Philippe Emile François Gille (10 December 1831 – 19 March 1901) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris.[1] He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé.
Although Gille studied law and was a clerk for a time at the Préfecture de la Seine, he became secretary of the Théâtre Lyrique then from 1869 an art and music critic for Le Figaro.[2]
Gille was elected to the Académie des beaux-arts in 1899.
Librettos by Philippe Gille
- Jacques Offenbach
- Vent du soir, ou L'horrible festin (1857)
- Le carnaval des revues (1860)
- Jeanne qui pleure et Jean qui rit (1864)
- Les bergers (1865)
- Pierrette et Jacquot (1876)
- Le docteur Ox (1877)
- Léo Delibes
- Monsieur de Bonne-étoile (1860)
- Le serpent à plumes (1864)
- Jean de Nivelle (1880)
- Lakmé (1883)
- Kassya (1893)
- Robert Planquette
- Rip van Winkle (1882)
- Jules Massenet
- Manon (1884)
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