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Philippe Emile François Gille (10 December 1831 – 19 March 1901) was a French dramatist and opera librettist, who was born and died in Paris.[1] He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé.

Although Gille studied law and was a clerk for a time at the Préfecture de la Seine, he became secretary of the Théâtre Lyrique then from 1869 an art and music critic for Le Figaro.[2]

Gille was elected to the Académie des beaux-arts in 1899.

Librettos by Philippe Gille

• Jacques Offenbach
  • Vent du soir, ou L'horrible festin (1857)
  • Le carnaval des revues (1860)
  • Jeanne qui pleure et Jean qui rit (1864)
  • Les bergers (1865)
  • Pierrette et Jacquot (1876)
  • Le docteur Ox (1877)
• Léo Delibes
  • Monsieur de Bonne-étoile (1860)
  • Le serpent à plumes (1864)
  • Jean de Nivelle (1880)
  • Lakmé (1883)
  • Kassya (1893)
• Robert Planquette
  • Rip van Winkle (1882)
• Jules Massenet
  • Manon (1884)

References

External links

• Works by or about Philippe Gille at Internet Archive

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[ru] Жиль, Филипп Эмиль Франсуа

Филипп Жиль (фр. Philippe Gille, полное имя Филипп Эмиль Франсуа Жиль; 10 декабря 1831 (1831-12-10), Париж — 19 марта 1901, Париж) — французский публицист и драматург.

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