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Henri Meilhac was born on February 23, 1830, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Henri Meilhac was born on February 23, 1830, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France.
Meilhac studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and comédies en vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront. About 1860, he met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years.
Their most famous collaboration is the libretto for Georges Bizet's Carmen. However, Meilhac's work is most closely tied to the music of Jacques Offenbach, for whom he wrote over a dozen librettos, most of them together with Halévy. The most successful collaborations with Offenbach are La belle Hélène (1864), Barbe-bleue (1866), La Vie parisienne (1866), La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (1867), and La Périchole (1868). Also Froufrou (1869), with Halévy.
Other librettos by Meilhac include Jules Massenet's Manon (with Philippe Gille) (1884), Hervé's Mam'zelle Nitouche (1883), and Rip, the French version of Robert Planquette's operetta Rip Van Winkle (also with Gille). Their vaudeville play Le réveillon was the basis of the operetta Die Fledermaus.
In 1888 he was elected to the Académie française.
Henri Meilhac died on July 6, 1897, in Paris.
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Quotations:
"Love's a wild and rebellious bird that flies so free it cannot be tamed. "
"There are times when you can't help doing stupid things. This is called enthusiasm. "
In 1888 Henri Meilhac became a member of the Académie française.