Le prophète
On top of this, both the most successful librettist of the day, Eugène Scribe, who blamed Pillet for the continued failure to mount Donizetti's unfinished "Le duc d'Albe", and the most successful composer, Giacomo Meyerbeer, who did not want to cast Stoltz in his new opera "Le prophète", declined to work with Pillet after 1845. Pillet was attacked by the press and suffered financial losses at the theater.