Jules-Adenis de Colombeau (28 June 1823 – 1900) was a 19th-century French opera librettist, playwright, and journalist.

Jules Adenis

Adenis was born in Paris and studied at the Collège royal de Bourbon (now the Lycée Condorcet). Colombeau was initially employed by the Compagnie de Saint-Gobain. At this time he was already working for various newspapers and magazines.

Some of Colombeau's works include Un Postillon en gage (1856) Sylvie (1864), and La Grand'tante (1867).[1]

Both of Colombeau's sons, Eugène (1854–1923) and Édouard (1867–1952) became writers and librettists.

La Fiancée d'Abydos

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La Fiancée d'Abydos, premiered 30 December 1865 at the Théâtre-Lyrique

Works

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Opera librettos
Theatre
  • 1852: Une Nuit orageuse, two-act comedy, mingled with song, with Armand d'Artois, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 18 September
  • 1854: Ne touchez pas à la hache!, "comédie-vaudeville" in 1 act (with Édouard Plouvier), Paris, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques, 15 April Text online
  • 1854: Ô le meilleur des pères, comédie en vaudeville, with Adrien Decourcelle, Théâtre des Variétés, 10 June
  • 1855: Philanthropie et repentir, "comédie-vaudeville" in 1 act, Théâtre des Variétés, 25 April
  • 1855: Trop beau pour rien faire, one-act comedy mingled with song, with Édouard Plouvier, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 13 November
  • 1857: La Crise de ménage, one-act comedy mingled with songs, with Édouard Plouvier, Théâtre des Variétés, 23 December
  • 1859: Feu le capitaine Octave, one-act comedy, with Édouard Plouvier, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 19 March
  • 1860: Si Pontoise le savait!, "comédie-vaudeville" in 1 act, with Laurencin and Francis Tourte, Théâtre du Palais-Royal, 25 February
  • 1860: Une Bonne pour tout faire, "comédie-vaudeville" in 1 act, with Jules Rostaing, Théâtre Déjazet, 16 March
  • 1860: Toute seule, one-act comedy mingled with song, with Édouard Plouvier, Théâtre du Vaudeville, 4 July
  • 1868: La Czarine, drama in 5 acts and 8 tableaux, with Octave Gastineau, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, 30 May Text online
  • 1874: L'Officier de fortune, drama in 5 acts and 10 tableaux, including a prologue, with Jules Rostaing, Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, 11 September
  • 1879: L'Abîme de Trayas, drama in 5 acts and 6 tableaux, with Jules Rostaing, Théâtre de Cluny, 16 January
Varia
  • 1887–1889: Le Théâtre chez soi. Contes et légendes en action. Charades en trois parties, 5 vols.
  • 1892: Les Étapes d'un touriste en France. De Marseille à Menton Text online

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