Émilien Pacini

also Emiliano Pacini, Émilien Alexandre Joseph Pacini

1811–1898 · French

Birthplace: Paris, French Empire

Émilien Pacini was a French librettist and translator, son of the music publisher Antonio Pacini, and a dramatic censor at the Ministry of the Interior. He made the French versions of Der Freischütz, with Berlioz's recitatives, for the Paris Opéra in 1841, and of Verdi's Il trovatore as Le trouvère, given at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1856 and at the Opéra in 1857. He wrote libretti for Niedermeyer's Stradella, Poniatowski's Pierre de Médicis and Reyer's Érostrate. A friend of Rossini, he wrote the words of his cantata for the Exposition of 1867.

Works

Il trovatore — Translator (Paris, 1857)

Written from

Wikipedia (2026) Émilien Pacini. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
Bibliothèque nationale de France (n.d.) Pacini, Émilien (1811-1898). Authority record. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).