Henri Meilhac

Meilhac by [[Jules-Élie Delaunay]], {{circa|1880}} Henri Meilhac (; 23 February 1830 – 6 July 1897) was a prolific French playwright and opera librettist, known for his collaborations with Ludovic Halévy on comic operas with music by Jacques Offenbach. He also wrote occasionally for serious works including Georges Bizet's ''Carmen'' (with Halévy) and Jules Massenet's ''Manon''.

Born in Paris, Meilhac began writing for a humorous magazine in 1852, and four years later he began a career as a playwright. In 1860 he collaborated for the first time with Halévy, an old schoolfriend, on a one-act comedy, presented at the Théâtre des Variétés. Over the next twenty-one years the two co-wrote fifty more stage works.

After Halévy retired in 1882 Meilhac continued to write, sometimes as sole author and sometimes with collaborators. His tally of stage works is more than a hundred, and includes short and full-length comic plays and the libretti of twenty-five operettas. He and Halévy wrote the libretti for Offenbach's ''La belle Hélène'' (1864), ''La vie parisienne'' (1866), ''La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein'' (1867) and ''La Périchole'' (1868). In addition Meilhac provided libretti for operettas by Charles Lecocq, Hervé, Gaston Serpette and Robert Planquette. Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. 1
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1874
    Paris : M. Levy frères, 1874
    104 p.
  2. 2
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1894
    Paris : Calmann-Lévy, [1894?]
    87 p.
  3. 3
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1878
    Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1878.
    132 p.
  4. 4
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1867
    Paris : M. Lévy frères, 1867
    32, 36 p.
  5. 5
    Paris : C. Lévy, [18--]
    54 p.
  6. 6
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1883
    Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1883.
    58 p.
  7. 7
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1894
    Paris, Lévy, 1894.
    179 p.
  8. 8
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1891
    Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1891.
    72 p.
  9. 9
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1880
    Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1880.
    52 p.
  10. 10
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1896
    Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1896.
    46 p.
  11. 11
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1877
    New York : De Witt Pub. House, c1877.
    29 p.
  12. 12
    Paris, Calmann Lévy [n.d.]
    89 p.
  13. 13
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1881
    Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1881.
    123 p.
  14. 14
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1880
    Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1880.
    111 p.
  15. 15
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1868
    Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1868.
    32 p.
  16. 16
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1913
    Barcelona : Impr. Baxarias, 1913.
    153 p.; 19 cm.
  17. 17
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1874
    Paris, M. Lévy frères, 1874.
    47 p.
  18. 18
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1894
    Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1894.
    36 p.
  19. 19
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1881
    [New York : Chickering, 1881]
    143 p.
  20. 20
    by Meilhac, Henri, 1831-1897
    Published 1873
    Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1873.
    47 p.

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