biography
| name: |
Favart, Charles Simon
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pronunciation:
[favah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1710–92)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Paris, France. He began writing libretti for comic opera while working as a pastry cook, and success led him to become stage manager (1743) and director (1758) of the Opéra-Comique. With his wife, Marie-Justine-Benoiste Duranceray (1727–71), he pioneered a new realism in costume. Among his best out of more than 100 comic operas are Les Amours de Bastien et Bastienne and Les Trois Sultanes. |
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