Bernard (playwright)


Claude Wolf, called Bernard was a 19th-century French actor, singer, playwright and theatre manager.

Short biography

Bernard sang in Kassel 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: