Vincent Scotto

Throughout a marvelous career that spanned the enchanted years of the French belle époque, the great songwriter/operetta composer Vincent Scotto kept a cautious distance from high French culture, choosing instead to identify with the language and music of the cafés, the street, and the countryside. Scotto's perhaps 4,000 songs are a monument of French popular music, while a number of his 60 beloved operettas are still performed to this day. The songs typically exude the cosmopolitan air he breathed in Paris, while the operettas burst with the charms and colors of Provence, his...