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Henri Cain (11 October 1857 – 21 November 1937) was a French dramatist, opera and ballet librettist. He wrote over forty librettos from 1893 to his death, for many of the most prominent composers of the Parisian Belle Epoque .
Eugène Henri Cain est un dramaturge et librettiste français, également romancier, peintre et graveur, né le 11 octobre 1857 à Paris, ville où il est mort dans le 16 e arrondissement le 21 novembre 1937 1. Il fut notamment un collaborateur régulier du compositeur Jules Massenet .
Don Quichotte (Don Quixote) is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. It was first performed on 19 February 1910 at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo. Massenet's comédie héroïque, like many dramatized versions of the story of Don Quixote, relates only indirectly to the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Henri Caïn was a French dramatist, opera, and ballet librettist. He wrote over forty libretti from 1893 to his death, for many of the most prominent composers of the Parisian Belle Epoque, which was a period of prosperity, technological innovation, and artistic expression that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Henri Cain, French author and painter, died today after a long illness. A versatile man of arts and letters, he was widely known for his numerous portraits, plays and novels. His age...
Henri Cain was a French dramatist, opera and ballet librettist. Background Cain was born in Paris, the son of the sculptor Auguste Cain and brother of the painter Georges Cain.
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Yet Massenet’s title character is rendered at once stronger and more human than her literary forebear, as Massenet and librettist Henri Caïn augment the opera’s comedy, romance, and wistfulness with Cendrillon’s remarkable ability to forgive.
