Victor de Cottens

Victor de Cottens (21 August 1862 – 26 February 1956) was a French dramatist, librettist, stage director, and theatre critic.

De Cottens was born in Paris.[1] For the Folies Bergère, he directed every edition of the Revue des Folies-Bergère produced by Émile and Vincent Isola; each of these revues offered various acts linked by two commentators, the commère and compère.[2] Between 1908 and 1911, he and H. B. Marinelli ran the Olympia music hall in Paris.[3] He and E. Danancier collaborated as interim directors of the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris when that theatre, closed at the beginning of the First World War, reopened on 2 April 1915.[4]

He died in Paris in 1956.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Victor de Cottens (1862-1956)", data.bnf.fr, Bibliothèque nationale de France, retrieved 5 November 2015
  2. ^ Gutsche-Miller, Sarah (2015), Parisian music-hall ballet, 1871–1913, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, p. 291, ISBN 9781580464420
  3. ^ Gutsche-Miller 2015, p. 30
  4. ^ Lamothe, Peter (2008), Theater music in France, 1864–1914 (Ph.D. thesis), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, p. 109, ISBN 9780549670407


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