Michel-Antoine Carré or Michel Carré (fils) (7 February 1865, Paris – 11 August 1945, Paris) was a French actor, stage and film director, and writer of opera librettos, stage plays and film scripts.

Career

He was the son of the librettist Michel Carré (père) (1821–1872) and cousin of the theatre director Albert Carré (his father's nephew). His libretto for André Messager's 1894 opera Mirette was never performed in France but was performed in an English adaptation in London at the Savoy Theatre.

He directed or co-directed some fifty silent films from c1907 to the mid 1920s. Many of these were shorts, including Ordre du roy (1909). His longer notable films included L'Enfant prodigue, the first European-made full-length feature film (1907), based on his own stage pantomime of the same name; and The Miracle (1912), the world's first full-colour narrative feature film.

He was one of the main directors at the Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres (SCAGL), created to protect the rights of authors whose works were used in screenplays.

He was created chevalier of the French Legion of Honour in 1927[1]

Works

Operas with libretti by Michel Carré
Year Title Composer Collaborator Notes
1888Friquette et BlaisotAlbert MilletCharles NarreyOpera
1890HildaAlbert MilletCharles NarreyOpera
1893Le bouton d'orGabriel Pierné'Fantaisie lyrique' in four acts
1894MiretteAndré MessagerComic opera. Never performed in French. Translated twice for English productions at the Savoy Theatre: dialogue translated by Harry Greenbank, and a new libretto by Fred. E. Weatherly; and later revised with new lyrics by Adrian Ross
1894DinahEdmond MissaPaul de Choudens
1897L'hôteEdmond MissaPaul Hugonnet
1903MuguetteEdmond MissaGeorges Hartmann
1922Le fakir de BénarèsLéo Manuel
1933Le garçon de chez PrunierJoseph SzulcAndré BardeThree-act operetta
Stage works by Michel Carré
Year Title Collaborator Notes
1890L'enfant prodigue [2]Music by André WormserSilent drama (French pantomime) with music, filmed twice by Carré in 1907 & 1916
1894Nos bons chasseursPaul Bilhaud, music by Charles LecocqFrench vaudeville (stage comedy with vaudeville songs) in three acts, fp. Nouveau-Théâtre, Paris, 10 April 1894
1898Ma Bru ! (My Daughter-in-Law)Paul Bilhaudfp at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris, in 1898, and at the Lyceum Theatre, Manhattan, on 26 February 1900
1907L’Âme des hérosPaul Bilhaudone-act play in verses, created at the Comédie-Française, 6 June 1907
1908La Courtisane de CorinthePaul Bilhaud, music by Charles-Gaston LevadéProduced in 1908 by Sarah Bernhardt, at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt


Selected filmography

References

  1. Dossier dans l'ordre de la Légion d'honneur de Michel Antoine Carré [archive], base Léonore, Ministère français de la Culture (in French). Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. Carré, Michel-Antoine; Wormser, André; Willette, Adolphe (illus.) (1890). L'Enfant Prodigue, Pantomime en Trois Actes (in French). Paris: E. Biardot.
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