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Lucien Népoty
A French playwright and librettist from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best remembered for stage works that moved between spoken drama and opera. His writing is linked with wartime theater and with the libretto for Henri Rabaud’s comic opera Mârouf, savetier du Caire.
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La veille d'armes: Pièce en cinq actes
by Claude Farrère, Lucien Népoty
About the author
Born in 1878 and dead in 1945, Lucien Népoty was a French man of letters whose work is cataloged by the Bibliothèque nationale de France as both dramatic writing and librettos.
He wrote for the stage in more than one form. Among the works reliably associated with him are La veille d'armes, a five-act play written with Claude Farrère and first performed in 1917, and the libretto for Henri Rabaud’s Mârouf, savetier du Caire, adapted from the Arabian Nights through the translation of J. C. Mardrus.
Even from these few confirmed details, a picture emerges of a writer at home in the theatrical world of his time: collaborative, literary, and comfortable crossing from straight drama into music theater. A full portrait was not clearly available from the sources checked, so no profile image is included here.