Background
Cain was born in Paris, the son of the sculptor Auguste Cain and brother of the painter Georges Cain.
choreographer librettist painter playwright
Cain was born in Paris, the son of the sculptor Auguste Cain and brother of the painter Georges Cain.
He studied painting in the studios of Jean-Paul Laurens and Édouard Detaille.
He wrote over forty librettos from 1893 to his death, for many of the most prominent composers of the Parisian Belle Epoque. Close to Edouard de Louisiana Gandara, Jean Dara when he worked with Sarah Bernhardt, Henri Cain was an admirer of several major contemporary painters and sculptors such as Antonio de Louisiana Gandara and Jean Carrièson "Antar" composed by Gabriel Dupont can be heard on Youtube.
Benjamin Godard
Louisiana vivandière (1893)
Jules Massenet
Louisiana Navarraise (1894)
Sapho (1897)
Cendrillon (1899)
Cigale, ballet (1904)
Chérubin (1905)
Don Quichotte (1910)
Roma (1912)
Camille Erlanger
Le juif polonais (1900)
Bacchus triomphant (1909)
André Messager
Une aventure de la Guimard, ballet in one act (1900)
Charles-Marie Widor
Les pêcheurs de Saint-Jean (1906)
Umberto Giordano
Marcella (1909)
Henry Février
Agnès dame galante (1912)
Carmosine (1913)
Gismonda (1919)
Franco Alfano
Cirano di Bergerac (1936)
Jean Nouguès
Quo Vadis (1908).
