Claude Wolf, called Bernard (

Dutch Ceylon Dutch Ceylon ( Sinhala: Tamil: ) was a governorate established in present-day Sri Lanka by the Dutch East India Company. Although the Dutch managed to capture most of the coastal areas in Sri Lanka, they were never able to control the Kandyan ...

, 1785 – ?) was a 19th-century

French actor This is a list of notable actors and actresses from France. ''(Persons are listed alphabetically according to their surname.)'' A * Kev Adams * Isabelle Adjani * Fatima Adoum * Renée Adorée * Anouk Aimée * Madame Albert * Catherine All� ...

, singer,

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

and

theatre manager Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

Short biography

Bernard sang in

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

in 1812, in Lille from 1813 to 1815, then at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels in 1818, theatre of which he became director the year after until 1823. While he was managing director of La Monnaie he made his debut at the Comédie-Française in 1822, then left Brussels and became director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1823, a position he would keep until 1826. Bernard headed the Opéra de Marseille from 1828 to 1830. He wrote some plays including: *1815: ''Jeanne Maillotte, ou la Cabaretière lilloise'', two-act vaudeville, Lille, 9 November; *1815: ''L'Hommage de la garde nationale de Lille au roi, ou la Veille du jour de l'an'', one-act vaudeville and extravaganza, Lille, 31 December; *1819: ''Momus à la nouvelle salle'', prologue d'inauguration joué devant le roi et la reine des Pays-Bas, Brussels, 25 May; *1825: ''L'Homme de confiance'', one-act vaudeville, with

Félix-Auguste Duvert Félix-Auguste Duvert (12 January 1795 – 19 October 1876) was a 19th-century French playwright and vaudevillist. Biography Félix-Auguste Duvert was first a soldier. A volunteer in 1811 among the riflemen of the young guard, he then was par ...

, Paris,

Théâtre du Vaudeville The Théâtre du Vaudeville was a theatre company in Paris. It opened on 12 January 1792 on rue de Chartres. Its directors, Piis and Barré, mainly put on "petites pièces mêlées de couplets sur des airs connus", including vaudevilles. Af ...

, 13 June; *1830: ''Noé, ou le Déluge universel'', three-act ballet, Marseille; *1834: ''Le Curé Mérino'', five-act drama, with Mallian and Tournemine, Paris,

Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique The Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique (, literally, Theatre of the Comic-Ambiguity), a former Parisian theatre, was founded in 1769 on the boulevard du Temple immediately adjacent to the Théâtre de Nicolet. It was rebuilt in 1770 and 1786, but in ...

, 30 January.

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