Michel Carré
List of works with libretti by Michel Carré

Michel Carré

Section Title: List of works with libretti by Michel Carré
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Title	Composer	Collaborator	Year	Notes

Victoire!	Adolphe Adam	1855	Cantata to celebrate the Battle of Sevastopol, words by Carré alone

The Pearl Fishers	Georges Bizet	Eugène Cormon	1863	Adapted from Octave Sachot's L'ile de Ceylan et ses curiosités naturales

Don Quichotte	Ernest Boulanger	Jules Barbier	1869

Don Mucarade	Ernest Boulanger	Jules Barbier	1875	One-act comic opera

Lalla-Roukh	Félicien David	Hippolyte Lucas	1862	two-act comic opera

La guzla de l'Émir	Théodore Dubois	Jules Barbier	1873	1-act comic opera

Quentin Durward	François-Auguste Gevaert	Eugène Cormon	1858	Three-act opera

Le médecin malgré lui	Charles Gounod	Jules Barbier	1858	Opéra comique in 3 acts

Faust	Charles Gounod	Jules Barbier	1859	Adapted from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, loosely based on Goethe's Faust, Part I. Revised 1869

Philémon et Baucis	Charles Gounod	Jules Barbier	1860	Based on Baucis and Philemon by Jean de la Fontaine (derived in turn from Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VIII)

La colombe	Charles Gounod	Jules Barbier	1860	Based on the poem Le Faucon by Jean de la Fontaine.

La reine de Saba	Charles Gounod	Jules Barbier	1862	From Gérard de Nerval's Le voyage en Orient.

Mireille	Charles Gounod	1864	Libretto by Carré alone, based on Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio.

Roméo et Juliette	Charles Gounod	Jules Barbier	1867	An adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Polyeucte	Charles Gounod	Jules Barbier	1868	Based on Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille

Valentine d'Aubigny	Fromental Halévy	Jules Barbier	1856	Comic opera, 3 acts

Les pêcheurs de Catane	Aimé Maillart	Eugène Cormon	1860	Three-act lyric opera

Lara	Aimé Maillart	Eugène Cormon	1864	3-act opera, based on Count Lara by Lord Byron

Galathée	Victor Massé	Jules Barbier	1852	Two-act opéra-comique

Les noces de Jeannette	Victor Massé	Jules Barbier	1853	One-act opéra-comique

Miss Fauvette	Victor Massé	Jules Barbier	1855

Les saisons	Victor Massé	Jules Barbier	1855	Three-act opéra-comique

Paul et Virginie	Victor Massé	Jules Barbier	1876	Three-act opéra-comique

Fior d'Alizia	Victor Massé	Hippolyte Lucas	1866

Dinorah	Giacomo Meyerbeer	Jules Barbier	1859	based on two tales by Émile Souvestre, La Chasse aux trésors and Le Kacouss de l'Armor

Deucalion et Pyrrhe	Alexandre Montfort	Jules Barbier	1855	One-act comic opera

The Marriage of Figaro	W. A. Mozart	Jules Barbier	1858	Translation into French for the Paris Théâtre Lyrique, ran for 200 performances

The Tales of Hoffmann	Jacques Offenbach	Jules Barbier (libretto & book)	1881	After a play by Barbier & Carré, Les contes fantastiques d'Hoffmann produced at the Odéon Theatre in Paris in 1851, based on stories by E.T.A.

La rose de Saint-Flour	Jacques Offenbach	1856	Libretto by Carré alone, 1-act operetta

Le mariage aux lanternes	Jacques Offenbach	Léon Battu	1857	Opérette, 1 act, revised version of Le trésor à Mathurin)

La Statue	Ernest Reyer	Jules Barbier	1869?	Opera, 3 acts – piano score arranged by Georges Bizet

Le timbre d'argent	Camille Saint-Saëns	Jules Barbier	1865	Saint-Saëns' first opera, an 'opera fantastique'. Not premiered until February 1877. Dialogue re-composed as Grand Opera, premiered in 1913.

Gil Blas	Théophile Semet [ca]	Jules Barbier	1860	notes

Hamlet	Ambroise Thomas	Jules Barbier	1868	notes

Mignon	Ambroise Thomas	Jules Barbier	1866	Based on Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Revised in 1870

Psyché	Ambroise Thomas	Jules Barbier	1860	opéra-comique, 3.acts

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Michel Carré wrote the text for Charles Gounod's Mireille in 1864.

final_sentence: Michel Carré wrote the text for Charles Gounod's Mireille in 1864.