French dramatist and librettist
Pierre-Étienne Piestre , known asEugène Cormon (5 May 1810 – March 1903), was a Frenchdramatist andlibrettist . He used his mother's name, Cormon, during his career.[ 2]
Cormon wrote dramas,comedies and, from the 1840s,libretti ; around 150 of his works were published. He wasstage manager at theParis Opéra from 1859 to 1870, and administrator of theThéâtre du Vaudeville from 1874.
His libretti includeLes dragons de Villars Lockroy ),Gastibelza (withd'Ennery ) andLes pêcheurs de Catane (withCarré ) forMaillart ,Les pêcheurs de perles Bizet ,Robinson Crusoé Crémieux ) forOffenbach , andLes Bleuets (withTrianon ) for Cohen.[ 3]
The Fontainebleau act as well as the auto-da-fé scene ofVerdi 's operaDon Carlos Philippe II, Roi d'Espagne ("Philip II, King of Spain ").[ 4] [ 5]
At theMoscow Art Theatre in 1927 the seminal Russiantheatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski staged Cormon'smelodrama The Gérard Sisters (The Two Orphans Adolphe d'Ennery .[ 6]
A Celebrated Case George Melford (1914, based on the playUne Cause célèbre )The Two Orphans Herbert Brenon (1915, based on the playThe Two Orphans )Orphans of the Storm D. W. Griffith (1921, based on the playThe Two Orphans )The Two Orphans Maurice Tourneur (France, 1933, based on the playThe Two Orphans )La gerla di papà Martin [it ] Mario Bonnard (Italy, 1940, based on the playLes Crochets du père Martin )The Two Orphans Carmine Gallone (Italy, 1942, based on the playThe Two Orphans )The Two Orphans The Two Orphans )The Two Orphans Hassan al-Imam (Egypt, 1949, based on the playThe Two Orphans )The Two Orphans Roberto Rodríguez (Mexico, 1950, based on the playThe Two Orphans )A Night in Venice Georg Wildhagen (Austria, 1953, based on the operettaEine Nacht in Venedig )The Two Orphans Giacomo Gentilomo (Italy, 1954, based on the playThe Two Orphans )The Two Orphans Riccardo Freda (France/Italy, 1965, based on the playThe Two Orphans )The Two Orphans Leopoldo Savona (Spain, 1976, based on the playThe Two Orphans )^ Eugène Cormon ^ Wright (1998), p. 15–16. ^ Walsh (1981). ^ Kimball (2001), in Holden, p. 1002. ^ Budden, p. 15–16 ^ Benedetti (1999), p. 314 and p. 388). Benedetti, Jean (1999),Stanislavski: His Life and Art . Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen.ISBN 0-413-52520-1 . Budden, Julian (1984),The Operas of Verdi, Volume 3: From Don Carlos to Falstaff . London: Cassell.ISBN 0-304-30740-8 Kimball, David (2001), inHolden, Amanda (Ed.),The New Penguin Opera Guide , New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.ISBN 0-14-029312-4 Walsh, T. J. (1981),Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique Paris 1851–1870. London: John Calder.Wright, Lesley (1998), "Eugene Cormon" in Stanley Sadie, (Ed.),The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , Vol. One. London: Macmillan Publishers, Inc. 1998 ISzrgbb BN 0-333-73432-7ISBN 1-56159-228-5
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