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French dramatist and librettist
Pierre-Étienne Piestre , known as Eugène Cormon (5 May 1810 – March 1903), was a French
dramatist and
librettist . He used his mother's name, Cormon, during his career.
[2]
Cormon wrote dramas,
comedies and, from the 1840s,
libretti ; around 150 of his works were published. He was
stage manager at the
Paris Opéra from 1859 to 1870, and administrator of the
Théâtre du Vaudeville from 1874.
His libretti include
Les dragons de Villars (with
Lockroy ), Gastibelza (with
d'Ennery ) and Les pêcheurs de Catane (with
Carré ) for
Maillart ,
Les pêcheurs de perles (with Carré) for
Bizet ,
Robinson Crusoé (with
Crémieux ) for
Offenbach , and Les Bleuets (with
Trianon ) for Cohen.
[3]
The Fontainebleau act as well as the auto-da-fé scene of
Verdi 's opera
Don Carlos is based in part on Cormon's 1846 play Philippe II, Roi d'Espagne ("Philip II, King of Spain ").
[4]
[5]
At the
Moscow Art Theatre in 1927 the seminal Russian
theatre practitioner
Constantin Stanislavski staged Cormon's
melodrama The Gérard Sisters (
The Two Orphans ), which he co-wrote with
Adolphe d'Ennery .
[6]
Plays
Filmography
A Celebrated Case , directed by
George Melford (1914, based on the play Une Cause célèbre )
The Two Orphans , directed by
Herbert Brenon (1915, based on the play The Two Orphans )
Orphans of the Storm , directed by
D. W. Griffith (1921, based on the play The Two Orphans )
The Two Orphans , directed by
Maurice Tourneur (France, 1933, based on the play The Two Orphans )
La gerla di papà Martin [
it ] , directed by
Mario Bonnard (Italy, 1940, based on the play Les Crochets du père Martin )
The Two Orphans , directed by
Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1942, based on the play The Two Orphans )
The Two Orphans , directed by José Benavides (Mexico, 1944, based on the play The Two Orphans )
The Two Orphans , directed by
Hassan al-Imam (Egypt, 1949, based on the play The Two Orphans )
The Two Orphans , directed by
Roberto Rodríguez (Mexico, 1950, based on the play The Two Orphans )
A Night in Venice , directed by
Georg Wildhagen (Austria, 1953, based on the operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig )
The Two Orphans , directed by
Giacomo Gentilomo (Italy, 1954, based on the play The Two Orphans )
The Two Orphans , directed by
Riccardo Freda (France/Italy, 1965, based on the play The Two Orphans )
The Two Orphans , directed by
Leopoldo Savona (Spain, 1976, based on the play The Two Orphans )
References
^
Eugène Cormon
^ Wright (1998), p. 15–16.
^ Walsh (1981).
^ Kimball (2001), in Holden, p. 1002.
^ Budden, p. 15–16
^ Benedetti (1999), p. 314 and p. 388).
Sources
Benedetti, Jean (1999), Stanislavski: His Life and Art . Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen.
ISBN
0-413-52520-1 .
Budden, Julian (1984), The Operas of Verdi, Volume 3: From Don Carlos to Falstaff . London: Cassell.
ISBN
0-304-30740-8
Kimball, David (2001), in
Holden, Amanda (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide , New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.
ISBN
0-14-029312-4
Walsh, T. J. (1981), Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870. London: John Calder.
Wright, Lesley (1998), "Eugene Cormon" in Stanley Sadie, (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , Vol. One. London: Macmillan Publishers, Inc. 1998 ISzrgbb BN 0-333-73432-7
ISBN
1-56159-228-5
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