Note 71 — Chapter V · OPERATIC DEVELOPMENT IN ITALY AND FRANCE

Eugène Scribe (1791-1861) was the librettist de mode of the period. Aside from his novels he wrote over a hundred libretti, including Meyerbeer’s Robert, Les Huguenots, Le Prophète, and L’Africaine; Auber’s La Muette, Fra Diavolo, Le domino noir, Les diamants de la couronne; Halévy’s La Juive and Manon Lescault; Boieldieu’s Dame blanche; and Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes.