Antoine-François Le Bailly (or Lebailly), (1 April 1756, Caen – 13 January 1832, Paris) was a French librettist and fabulist.

Antoine Le Bailly authored some operas, but is mostly known for his fables.

A first collection was published under the title Fables nouvelles, suivies de poésies fugitives (Paris, 1784, in-12 ; a second one under that of Fables nouvelles (Ibid., 1814, in-12). In a third edition (1823, in-8°), Le Bailly replaced the verse of the epilogue in praise of Napoléon by verse in honor of the Bourbons.

He also composed Corisandre, comédie-opéra (Paris, 1792, in-4°) ; Diane et Endymion, opera (Ibid., 1814, in-12) ; le Procès d’Ésope avec les animaux, one-act comedy, in verse and in prose (Paris, 1812, in-12) ; le Gouvernement des animaux, poème ésopéen (Ibid., 1816, in-8°) ; Arion, ou le pouvoir de la musique (Ibid. , 1817, in-8°) ; la Chute des Titans, ou le retour d’Astrée, cantata to mark the coronation of Charles X (Ibid., 1825, in-8°), etc.

Works

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Operas and cantatas
  • 1791: Corisandre, ou les fous par enchantement, comédie-opéra in three acts, music by Honoré Langlé
  • 1791: Œnone, two-act opera, music by Christian Kalkbrenner
  • 1792: Soliman et Eronyme, ou Mahomet II, opera, music by Honoré Langlé
  • 1800: Gustave Vasa, tragédie lyrique in three acts
  • 1801: Hercule au Mont Oeta, opera
  • 1801: Le mariage secret de Vénus, opera
  • 1802: Calisto, opera
  • 1809: Les amants napolitains, ou la gageure indiscrète, three-act opéra bouffon on music of Cosi fan tutte by Mozart
  • 1811: Le choix d’Alcide, opéra-ballet in one act, music by Honoré Langlé, in-8°, Brasseur aîné, Paris
  • 1812: L'amour vengé, opera
  • 1814: Diane et Endymion, two-act opéra-ballet
  • 1817: Arion, ou le pouvoir de la musique, two-part cantata on a music parodied of Mozart
  • 1825: La chute des Titans, ou le retour d'Astrée, cantata
Fables and varia
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