Henri Trianon

Who was Henri Trianon?

Henri Trianon was a French critic, librettist and translator of works by Homer and Plato, and operas by Weber and Mozart into French. He was an artistic and literary critic in Paris who eventually became teacher. In 1842 he became under-librarian and then librarian at Sainte Geneviève in 1849. From 1857-59 Trianon was associated with Nestor Roqueplan in the administration of the Opéra-Comique.

He also wrote the libretto to the ballet Orfa by Adolphe Adam and several others, including Le Maître à Chanter by Armand Limnander, Pantagruel by Théodore Labarre, Les Bleuets by Jules Cohen, and Ivan IV by Bizet, which he co-wrote once it had been refused by Charles Gounod.