Michel Carré

He wrote the text for Charles Gounod's Mireille (1864) on his own, and collaborated with Eugène Cormon on Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles. However, the majority of his libretti were completed in tandem with Jules Barbier, with whom he wrote the libretti for numerous operas, including Camille Saint-Saëns's Le timbre d'argent (libretto written in 1864, first performed in 1877), Gounod's Faust (1859), Roméo et Juliette (1867), and Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann (1881). His son, Michel-Antoine Carré (1865–1945), followed in his father's footsteps, also writing libretti, and later directing silent films. His nephew Albert Carré (1852–1938) also wrote libretti.

• data-sort-type="text" | Title — data-sort-type="text" | Composer — data-sort-type="text" | Collaborator — data-sort-type="number" | Year — Notes • Yvonne et Loïc — Charles — 1854 — Produced at the Théâtre du Gymnase • Victoire! — Adolphe — 1855 — Cantata to celebrate the Battle of Sevastopol, words by Carré alone • PecheursLes pêcheurs de perles — Georges — Eugène Cormon — 1863 — Adapted from Octave Sachot's L'ile de Ceylan et ses curiosités naturales • Don Quichotte — Ernest — Jules Barbier — 1869 • Don Mucarade — Ernest — Jules Barbier — 1875 — One-act comic opera • Lalla-Roukh — Félicien — Hippolyte Lucas — 1862 — two-act comic opera • guzlaLa guzla de l'Émir — Théodore — Jules Barbier — 1873 — 1-act comic opera • Quentin Durward — François-Auguste — Eugène Cormon — 1858 — Three-act opera • medecinLe médecin malgré lui — Charles — Jules Barbier — 1858 — Opéra comique in 3 acts • Faust — Charles — Jules Barbier — 1859 — Adapted from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, loosely based on Goethe's Faust, Part I. Revised 1869 • Philémon et Baucis — Charles — Jules Barbier — 1860 — Based on Baucis and Philemon by Jean de La Fontaine (derived in turn from Ovid's Metamorphoses Book VIII) • colombeLa colombe — Charles — Jules Barbier — 1860 — Based on the poem Le Faucon by Jean de La Fontaine. • reineLa reine de Saba — Charles — Jules Barbier — 1862 — From Gérard de Nerval's Le voyage en Orient. • Mireille — Charles — 1864 — Libretto by Carré alone, based on Frédéric Mistral's poem Mireio. • Roméo et Juliette — Charles — Jules Barbier — 1867 — An adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet • Polyeucte — Charles — Jules Barbier — 1868 — Based on Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille • Valentine d'Aubigny — Fromental — Jules Barbier — 1856 — Comic opera, 3 acts • pecheurs de CataneLes pêcheurs de Catane — Aimé — Eugène Cormon — 1860 — Three-act lyric opera • Lara — Aimé — Eugène Cormon — 1864 — 3-act opera, based on Count Lara by Lord Byron • Galathée — Victor — Jules Barbier — 1852 — Two-act opéra-comique • nocesLes noces de Jeannette — Victor — Jules Barbier — 1853 — One-act opéra-comique • Miss Fauvette — Victor — Jules Barbier — 1855 • saisonLes saisons — Victor — Jules Barbier — 1855 — Three-act opéra-comique • Paul et Virginie — Victor — Jules Barbier — 1876 — Three-act opéra-comique • Fior d'Alizia — Victor — Hippolyte Lucas — 1866 • Dinorah — Giacomo — Jules Barbier — 1859 — (Originally titled Le pardon de Ploërmel). Based on two tales by Émile Souvestre, La Chasse aux trésors and Le Kacouss de l'Armor • Deucalion et Pyrrhe — Alexandre — Jules Barbier — 1855 — One-act comic opera • MarriageThe Marriage of Figaro — MozartW. A. Mozart — Jules Barbier — 1858 — Translation into French for the Paris Théâtre Lyrique, ran for 200 performances • TalesThe Tales of Hoffmann — Jacques — Jules Barbier (libretto & book) — 1881 — After a play by Barbier & Carré, Les contes fantastiques d'Hoffmann produced at the Odéon Theatre in Paris in 1851, based on stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann • roseLa rose de Saint-Flour — Jacques — 1856 — Libretto by Carré alone, 1-act operetta • mariageLe mariage aux lanternes — Jacques — Léon Battu — 1857 — Opérette, 1 act, revised version of Le trésor à Mathurin) • StatueLa statue — Ernest — Jules Barbier — 1869? — Opera, 3 acts – piano score arranged by Georges Bizet • timbreLe timbre d'argent — Camille — Jules Barbier — 1865 — Saint-Saëns' first opera, an 'opera fantastique'. Not premiered until February 1877. Dialogue re-composed as Grand Opera, premiered in 1913. • Gil Blas — SemetThéophile Semet — Jules Barbier — 1860 — notes • Hamlet — Ambroise — Jules Barbier — 1868 — notes • Mignon — Ambroise — Jules Barbier — 1866 — Based on Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Revised in 1870 • Psyché — Ambroise — Jules Barbier — 1860 — opéra-comique, 3.acts