Émile Fabre

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Émile Fabre (24 March 1869 in

general administrator of the Comédie-Française
from 1915 to

Émile Fabre
Émile Fabre in 1917
Born24 March 1869
Metz, France
Died25 September 1955
Paris, France

1936.

Balzac as a young man, and most of his best-known plays deal with the sacrifice of personal happiness to the pursuit of wealth.[3] He also wrote the libretto for Xavier Leroux's opera Les cadeaux de Noël (The Christmas Gifts) which was a great success when it premiered in Paris in 1915.[4]

Career at the Comédie-Française

Fabre was appointed general administrator of the Comédie-Française on 2 December 1915.[2]:227 According to Susan McCready,

During Fabre's tenure, the Comédie-Française moved from the center of the theatre scene, where theatrical creation and innovation are paramount, to its periphery, where [ . . . ] its role was increasingly limited to the preservation of the past.[2]:2

In 1922 he organised the Cycle Moliere, in which all of Moliere's plays were performed in chronological order.[2]:231

The success of this event, encouraged him to organise the Centennial of Romanticism in 1927, the 100-year anniversary of Victor Hugo's Preface de Cromwell (Qe Waleffe).[2]:232 Over the course of the Centennial the theatre staged twenty-one Romantic plays.

He resigned from the position 15 October 1936.[2]:227

Plays

Fabre's plays include:[3]

  • L'Argent (Money), 1895
  • La Vie publique (Public Life), 1901
  • Les Ventres dorés (Gilded Stomachs), 1905
  • Les Sauterelles (The Locusts), 1911

References

  1. ^ "Émile Fabre | French dramatist | Britannica". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
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  4. ^ Le Figaro (13 April 1917). "Courrier des Théâtres", p. 4 (in French)