Charles Silver

Charles Silver studied at Conservatoire de Paris. Training under Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet is recorded. Amédée Borsari is recorded as having studied under Charles Silver. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Conservatoire de Paris. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome, resident at the Villa Medici and Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Born in Paris, Silver studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Théodore Dubois and Jules Massenet and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1891 with the lyrical drama L'Interdit. During his stay at the Villa Medici, he composed the opera La Belle au bois dormant in 1895, which was premiered in Marseille in 1902. His most successful opera was La Mégère apprivoisée after Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, which was on the repertoire of the Paris Opera for some time. He also composed a ballet, an oratorio and several symphonic works. Silver taught harmony at the Conservatoire de Paris, where Amédée Borsari was one of his students. Since 1900 he was married to the singer Georgette Bréjean-Gravière.

• La Belle au bois dormant, Opera, 1902 in Marseille • Tobia, Oratorium, 1902 in Marseille • Poème carnwevalesque, 1906 in Monaco • Le Clos, Myriane, Opera, 1913 in Nice • Néigilde, Ballet, 1919 in Monte-Carlo • La Mégère apprivoisée, Opera (libretto by Henri Caïn and Édouard Adenis) • La Grand-Mère, Opera, 1930 • Quatre-Vingt-Treize, 1936 in Paris