Edmond Gondinet - Librettos

Librettos

• Le roi l’a dit (1873), comic opera, performed for the first time in Paris in the Opéra-Comique on May 24, 1873, with another run beginning in the same theater on June 3, 1885, with music by Léo Delibes (Théâtre Complet V-1)
• Le Dada (1876), three-act vaudeville, performed for the first time in Paris sur le Théâtre des Variétés on February 18, 1876, in musical collaboration with Jules Costé. This play was never printed.
• Le Grand Casimir (1879), three-act, performed for the first time in Paris in the Théâtre des Variétés on January 11, 1879, in collaboration with Jules Prével and Albert de Saint-Albin (libretto), and Charles Lecocq (music). Though published (Calmann-Lévy, publisher), this play is not signed by Edmond Gondinet.
• Les Voltigeurs de la 32ème (1880), three-act comic opera, performed for the first time in Paris in the Théâtre de la Renaissance on January 7, 1880. In collaboration with Georges Duval (libretto), and Robert Planquette (music) (Calmann-Lévy, publisher)
• Jean de Nivelle (1880), three-act opera, performed for the first time in Paris in the Opéra-Comique on March 8, 1880. In collaboration with Philippe Gille (libretto) and Léo Delibes (music) (Calmann-Lévy, publisher)
• Lakmé (1883), three-act opera, performed for the first time in Paris in the Opéra-Comique on April 14, 1883. In collaboration with Philippe Gille (libretto), Léo Delibes (music) (Calmann-Lévy, publisher)
• Mam’zelle Gavroche (1885), three-act operetta, performed for the first time in Paris in the Théâtre des Variétés on January 24, 1885, in collaboration with Ernest Blum et Albert de Saint-Albin (libretto), Florimond Ronger alias Hervé (music). This libretto was never printed.