Cormon, Pierre-Etienne Piestre
(1810–1903)> LIBRETTIST
Cormon, Pierre-Etienne Piestre DIT Eugène (5 May 1810, Lyon; 7 March 1903, Paris), librettist, deluged the theatres with his manuscripts between 1832 and 1880; he had roughly 150 works published, but no one has yet undertaken a full description of his authorship that includes unpublished as well as published dramas and comedies written mostly in collaboration. Cormon was an administrator of the Vaudeville Theatre and director of the Opéra for a short time. His only contribution to the repertory…