Louis Anseaume
Louis Anseaume was a French playwright and librettist from Paris.
He contributed the words for operas by André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and François-André Danican Philidor. He is credited with developing the genre of comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a type of opéra comique.
A prompter and répétiteur at Comédie Italienne, he was deputy director of the Opéra-Comique and wrote some forty plays, often in collaboration with Charles-Simon Favart, including several opéras-comiques with Duni:
- Le Chinois poli en France
- Le Peintre amoureux de son modèle, music by Duni
- La Fausse Esclave, music by Gluck
- Cendrillon, music by Laruette
- L'Île des fous, music by Duni
- Mazet, music by Duni
- Le Milicien, music by Duni
- Les Deux Chasseurs et la Laitière, music by Duni
- La Clochette, music by Duni
- Le tableau parlant, music by Grétry