Armand_Liorat

Armand Liorat

Armand Liorat

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Armand Liorat was the pen name of Georges Degas (10 January 1837 – 8 August 1898), a French playwright and librettist.

Life and career

Liorat was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of Pierre André Constant Degas, a lawyer, and his wife Rose Elisabeth Hermance, née Berthault. He entered the civil service in the office of the préfecture of the Seine, and rose to be chief inspector of administrative finance. Away from his official duties he wrote song-lyrics, and sketches for cafés-concerts. For the spoken drama and the opera he adopted the pen name Amand Liorat and, either alone or in collaboration with writers such as William Busnach, Clairville, Paul Bocage, Prével, Ferrier, wrote a large number of operetta librettos.[1]

As well as librettos for the lyric stage, Liorat wrote some serious drama, including La belle aux cheveux d'or (1882) in collaboration with Arthur Arnould.[2]

Liorat died suddenly, shortly before his last work, Les quatre filles Aymon was put into production at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques.[3]

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Source: Encyclopédie de l'art lyrique français.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Armand Loriat", Encyclopédie de l'art lyrique français, Association l'Art Lyrique Français. Retrieved 1 December 2018
  2. [2]
    "The Drama in Paris", The Era, 15 July 1882, p. 14
  3. [3]
    "The Drama in Paris", The Era, 13 August 1898, p. 11
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