Deligny, Eugène

Deligny, Eugène (30 December 1816, Paris; March 1881, Paris), librettist, gave up his medical studies to pursue a career in the theatre. He became secretary of the Ambigu-Comique after his Le Fils du bravo and Hermann l’ivrogne were performed on the stage of this theatre in 1836. His La Porte secrète was also mounted here four years later in 1840. After composing a series of comedies and vaudevilles for the Variétés, he became general secretary of the Opéra and added the ballet of 1848 entitled…