Aristide Hignard

Aristide Hignard

Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (Nantes 20 May 1822 - Vernon 20 March 1898), was a French composer of light opera notable as a friend of Jules Verne, also from Nantes and six years Hignard's junior, some of whose librettos and verse he set to music.[1]

Works

  • 1850: La Mille et deuxième nuit, libretto Jules Verne, never performed
  • 1851: Le Visionnaire, opéra-comique in 1 act
  • 1853: Le Colin-maillard, opéra-comique in 1 act, libretto by Jules Verne and Michel Carré
  • 1855: Les Compagnons de la Marjolaine, opéra-comique in 1 act, libretto by Jules Verne and Michel Carré
  • 1858: Monsieur de Chimpanzé, operetta, libretto by Jules Verne
  • 1860: L'Auberge des Ardennes, opéra-comique in 1 act, libretto by Jules Verne and Michel Carré
  • 1860: Le Nouveau Pourceaugnac, played at the Bouffes-Parisiens
  • 1861: Les Musiciens de l'orchestre, a collaboration with Léo Delibes
  • 1868: Hamlet, opéra
  • 1857-1863: Rimes et mélodies, on the poems of Jules Verne

Recordings

  • Mélodies inédites. Music by Hignard and one song Zouaves! by Alfred Dufresne (1822-1872). L'Académie de Bretagne et des Pays de Loire. Françoise Masset, Emmanuel Strosser. 2005.

Bibliography

  • Patrick Barbier, « Hignard et Verne: les mélodies de l'amitié » in Voyage autour de Jules Verne, Académie de Bretagne et des Pays de Loire, 2000
  • Alexandre Tarrieu, « Aristide Hignard (1822-1898) » in Revue Jules Verne, n° 11, 2001

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Patrick Barbier, « Hignard et Verne: les mélodies de l'amitié » in Voyage autour de Jules Verne, Académie de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire, 2000.
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