Eugène Scribe
French dramatist and librettist
1791 CE to 1861 CE
Augustin Eugène Scribe (24 December 1791 – 20 February 1861) is a French dramatist and librettist.
He is known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" (pièce bien faite), a mainstay of popular theater for over 100 years, and as the librettist of many of the most successful grand operas.
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French playwright Eugène Scribe, in the winter of 1828–1829, furnishes a four-act mimed scenario as a basis for ballet-master Jean-Pierre Aumer's choreography of a four-act ballet-pantomime La Belle au bois dormant (“The Sleeping Beauty”).
Scribe wisely omits the violence of the second part of Perrault's tale for the ballet, which is set by Hérold and first staged at the Académie Royale, Paris, April 27, 1829.
Antonio García Gutiérrez suddenly springs into fame as the author of El Trovador ("The Troubadour"), which had been played for the first time on March 1, 1836.
He will never surpass this first effort, which places him among the leaders of the Romantic movement in Spain, and which is to eventually to become known all over Europe through Giuseppe Verdi's music (as the opera Il trovatore).
After having studied medicine in his native town near Cádiz, had moved to Madrid in 1832, and earned a meager living by translating plays of Eugène Scribe and Alexandre Dumas, père.
Lacking success, he had been on the point of enlisting.