Jules Barbier (8 March 1825 - 16 January 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in leap years). ... Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825 (MDCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan. ... Michel Carré (1822-1872) was a prolific French librettist. ...

His writings include:

• Bizet - La Guzla de l'Émir (1-act comic opera; never performed and probably destroyed)
• Gounod - Faust, Romeo et Juliette, Le Médecin malgré lui, Philémon et Baucis, La Colombe, La Reine de Saba, and Polyeucte, operas; Jeanne d'Arc, incidental music
• Meyerbeer - Le Pardon de Ploermel, opera (later revised as Dinora)
• Offenbach - The Tales of Hoffmann, opera
• Saint-Saens - Le Timbre d'argent, opera
• Thomas - Hamlet and Mignon, operas.

The libretto to Tchaikovsky's opera The Maid of Orleans drew on various sources, including Barbier's play Jeanne d'Arc. Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875), was a French composer of the romantic era best known for his opera Carmen. ... Categories: Stub | 1818 births | 1893 deaths | Opera composers | Romantic composers | French musicians ... Faust (Latin Faustus) is the protagonist of a popular German tale of a pact with the Devil, assumed to be based on the figure of the German magician and alchemist Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approximately 1480–1540). ... Roméo et Juliette is a symphonie dramatique, a large scale work in French for mixed voices and orchestra, by French composer Hector Berlioz. ... Le Médecin malgré lui (Doctor in spite of himself) is an opera in three acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Moliéres Le Médecin malgré lui. ... Polyeucte is a drama in five acts by French writer Pierre Corneille. ... Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 - May 2, 1864) was a noted opera composer. ... Offenbach holds many meanings. ... The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a film by the British-based director-writer team of Powell & Pressburger. ... Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (IPA: [ʃaʁl. ... // Thomas was not a Biblical given name, but originated from the Aramaic designation תום or Tôm. ... Mignon is an opera in three acts by Ambroise Thomas to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on Goethes story Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. ... Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, sometimes transliterated as Piotr, Anglicised as Peter Ilich), (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893 (N.S.); April 25, 1840 – October... The Maid of Orleans (Orleanskaya deva in transliteration) is an opera in four acts by Pyotr Tchaikovsky to a libretto by the composer, based on several sources: Friedrich von Schiller’s Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Young Woman from Orleans) translated by Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky; Jules Barbier’s...