Alphonse Royer
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Alphonse Royer was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written the librettos for Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite and Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusalem.
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Alphonse Royer(caricature by Nadar ca. 1857)
Père Lachaise Cemetery with Paris in the distance
Rosine Stoltz and Gilbert Duprez in the premiere of La favorite, Paris 1840
Charles Volnys as Henry in Royer's first play, Henry V et ses compagnons
Frontispiece by Nanteuil for Royer's novel, Venezia la bella
Royer's Théâtre d'Alarcón(1st edition title page)Awards 1
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About this person
Alphonse Royer was a French author, dramatist and theatre manager, most remembered today for having written the librettos for Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite and Giuseppe Verdi's Jérusalem. From 1853 to 1856, he was the director of the Odéon Theatre and from 1856 to 1862 director of the Paris Opéra, after which he was appointed France's Inspecteur Général des Beaux-Arts. In his later years, he wrote a six volume history of the theatre and a history of the Paris Opéra. He also translated the theatrical works of the Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi, as well those of the Spanish writers, Miguel de Cervantes, Tirso de Molina, and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón. A Chevalier and later Officier of the Légion d'honneur, Royer died in Paris, the city of his birth, at the age of 71.
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