Sedaine, Michel-Jean
(1719–1797)> LIBRETTIST
Sedaine, Michel-Jean (4 July 1719, Paris; 17 May 1797, Paris), librettist, owes his reputation to the collection of 30 odd comic operas he did for the Théâtre-Italien and to his well-remembered Le Philosophe sans le savoir performed at the Comédie-Française in 1765. His contributions to the repertory of the Opéra are often overlooked. Sedaine was left without a father at an early age, and he was obliged to seek work as an apprentice stonecutter to support the surviving members of his family…