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Opera composer
A.K.A.
Jean Louis Ar Stides
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Male
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Birth:
20 May 1822(Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France)
Death:
20 March 1898(Vernon, arrondissement of Évreux, Eure, Normandy)
The details
Biography
Introduction
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.
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.