Ludovic Halévy

Ludovic Halévy (1834–1908) was a French playwright, librettist, and novelist. He collaborated with Henri Meilhac on works for Jacques Offenbach and co-wrote the libretto of Bizet’s Carmen.

Carmen: An 1875 French opera by Georges Bizet, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Its libretto was one of Halévy’s best-known collaborations with Meilhac.
Henri Meilhac: A French playwright and librettist who frequently co-wrote stage works with Ludovic Halévy. Their partnership produced many of Halévy’s best-known librettos and comedies.
Second French Empire: The regime of Napoleon III in France from 1852 to 1870. Halévy began writing for the Paris stage under this regime’s cultural institutions.
Die Fledermaus: An 1874 operetta by Johann Strauss II, based partly on the French comedy Le Réveillon. Its plot traces the international afterlife of a comedy Halévy co-wrote.
La belle Hélène: An 1864 opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This Offenbach hit established the pair’s success in comic musical theater.
Jacques Offenbach: A German-born French composer whose operettas helped define nineteenth-century Parisian musical theater. Halévy and Meilhac wrote librettos for many of Offenbach’s most successful works.
Parisian boulevard theatre: Commercial theaters along Paris’s boulevards that staged popular plays, comedies, and musical works. These theaters formed the professional world in which Halévy and Meilhac built their careers.
French operetta: A French musical-theater genre combining spoken dialogue, songs, and comic plots. Halévy’s Offenbach librettos became central examples of this theatrical tradition.
La Vie parisienne: An 1866 opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. Its satire of Parisian society exemplifies their work for Offenbach.
Georges Bizet: A French composer best known for the opera Carmen. Bizet set the libretto that Halévy co-wrote with Meilhac.

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