La belle Hélène
Their most famous collaboration is the libretto for Georges Bizet's "Carmen". However, Meilhac's work is most closely tied to the music of Jacques Offenbach, for whom he wrote over a dozen librettos, most of them together with Halévy. The most successful collaborations with Offenbach are "La belle Hélène" (1864), "Barbe-bleue" (1866), "La Vie parisienne" (1866), "La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein" (1867), and "La Périchole" (1868).